Eye movement abnormalities in joubert syndrome

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4669-4677

  Weiss, Avery H ^a,b   Doherty, Dan ^a,c   Parisi, Melissa ^a,c   Shaw, Dennis ^a   Glass, Ian ^a,c   Phillips, James O ^a,d  

^a SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Departments of Ophthalmology   (United States)

^c Departments of Medical Genetics   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOBOMA; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALOCELE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; GAZE; GENE DELETION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; JOUBERT SYNDROME; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MYOPIA; NEWBORN; NIGHT VISION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PHOTOPIC VISION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; VERTICAL STRABISMUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX; VIDEOOCULOGRAPHY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETINA DEGENERATION; SMOOTH PURSUIT EYE MOVEMENT; SYNDROME; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NYSTAGMUS, PHYSIOLOGIC; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; PURSUIT, SMOOTH; REFLEX, VESTIBULO-OCULAR; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SACCADES; SYNDROME;

EID: 70349173426     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3299     Document Type: Article

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