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Diagnosis and Treatment of Nystagmus PDF
Diagnosis and Treatment of Nystagmus PDF
Neuro-ophthalmology Unit
Hospices Civils de Lyon, University Lyon I
Lyon, France
caroline.tilikete@chu-lyon.fr
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2. NEURAL INTEGRATOR
Premotor
neurons Oculomotor
nuclei
Neural integrator
2. NEURAL INTEGRATOR
OBJECTIVE
Maintain ocular stability in eccentric gaze
INVOLVES
Motor network in brainstem and cerebellum
DEFICIT MAY EXPLAIN
Gaze evoked nystagmus
Pendular nystagmus
3. VESTIBULO OCULAR REFLEX
T O
Vestibular Oculomotor
nuclei nuclei
T
Head position
in space
Eye position in space
Time
Eye position in
orbit
O
3. VESTIBULO OCULAR REFLEX
OBJECTIVE
Maintain ocular stability during head movements
INVOLVES
Vestibular system
Cerebellar control
DEFICIT MAY EXPLAIN
Pathological peripheral and central vestibular
nystagmus
Vestibulo-ocular areflexia
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