Identifier |
20150224_nanos_sciplatform2_07 |
Title |
Cortical Control of Vertical Versus Horizontal Saccades in Parkinsonian Syndromes |
Creator |
Joao Lemos; Daniela Pereira; Luciano Almendra; Diliana Rebelo; Joao Castelhano; Gil Cunha; Cristina Januario; Luis Cunha; Antonio F. Goncalves; Miguel Castelo-Branco |
Affiliation |
(JL) (LA) (JC) (LC) (AFG) Neurology Department, Coimbra University Hospital Center, Coimbra, Portugal; (DP) (GC) Neuroradiology Department, Coimbra University Hospital Center, Coimbra, Portugal; (DP) (DR) (JC) (GC) (MC) Institute of Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health/Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Life Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal; (CJ) (LC) (AFG) (MC) Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra University, Coimbra, Portugal |
Subject |
Ocular Motility; Neuroimaging |
Description |
Examination of saccades has gained overwhelming acceptance as a clinical tool in evaluation of parkinsonian syndromes. While Parkinson's disease patients usually evidence hypometric self-paced saccades, patients with progressive supranuclear palsy characteristically show small and slow saccades, especially in the vertical direction. Although the brainstem structures responsible for the control of saccades have been thoroughly studied, the cortical saccadic circuitry, particularly for vertical saccades is far less known. We sought to compare functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) activation between two parkinsonian syndromes during the execution of vertical and horizontal saccades. |
Date |
2014-02-24 |
Language |
eng |
Format |
application/pdf |
Type |
Text |
Source |
2015 North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society Annual Meeting |
Relation is Part of |
NANOS Annual Meeting 2015 Platform Session 2 |
Collection |
Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: NANOS Annual Meeting Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/nanos-annual-meeting-collection/ |
Publisher |
North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society |
Holding Institution |
Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah |
Rights Management |
Copyright 2015. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6cp09sv |
Context URL |
The NANOS Annual Meeting Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection: https://novel.utah.edu/collection/NAM/toc/ |
Setname |
ehsl_novel_nam |
ID |
184732 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6cp09sv |