The neural mechanism for latent (Fusion Maldevelopment) nystagmus

Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 276-283

  Tychsen, Lawrence ^a   Richards, Michael ^b   Wong, Agnes ^a,b   Foeller, Paul ^a   Bradley, Dolores ^c   Burkhalter, Andreas ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBLYOPIA; BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN STEM; CONGENITAL CATARACT; CONVERGENT STRABISMUS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FUSION MALDEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; LATENT NYSTAGMUS; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MONOCULAR VISION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OPTIC CHIASM; OPTIC TRACT; OPTOKINETIC NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STEREOSCOPIC VISION; STRABISMUS; STRIATE CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL SYSTEM; VISUOMOTOR COORDINATION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; STRABISMUS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77957790373     PISSN: 10708022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNO.0b013e3181dfa9ca     Document Type: Review

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