Alexander's law and the oculomotor neural integrator: Three-dimensional eye velocity in patients with an acute vestibular asymmetry

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 100, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3105-3116

  Bockisch, Christopher J ^a,b,c   Hegemann, Stefan ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE VESTIBULAR ASYMMETRY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE DISEASE; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; EYE VELOCITY; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEURAL INTEGRATOR; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OCULOMOTOR MUSCLES; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; VESTIBULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57449108551     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90381.2008     Document Type: Article

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