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Pontine Lesions Impair Visually Guided Eye and Hand Movements

2020-05-08 neurology Title + abstract only
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Although animal research and some rare human case reports suggest that lesions of the dorsal pons yield saccadic and smooth pursuit eye movement deficits, little is known about the functional topology of the human pontine nuclei (PN) and whether limb movements are similarly affected as eye movements. Saccadic as well as SP eye and pointing movements were measured in six patients with lesions in the PN region. Five patients of the six exhibited dysmetric saccades, whilst smooth pursuit gain was r...

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