Critical role of cerebellar fastigial nucleus in programming sequences of saccades

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1233, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 155-161

  King, Susan A ^a   Schneider, Rosalyn M ^a   Serra, Alessandro ^a   Leigh, R John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Double step; Fastigial nucleus; Hypermetria; Latency; Parallel processing; Saccade; Spinocerebellar ataxia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FASTIGIAL NUCLEUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SACCADIC HYPERMETRIA; SURGICAL LESION;

EID: 80053202195     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06119.x     Document Type: Article

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