Walsh & Hoyt: Lesions of the Paramedian Pontine Reticular Formation

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Identifier wh_ch19_p922_2
Title Walsh & Hoyt: Lesions of the Paramedian Pontine Reticular Formation
Creator David S. Zee, MD; David Newman-Toker, MD, PhD
Affiliation (DSZ) Professor of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University; (DN) Associate Professor, Departments of Neurology, Ophthalmology, & Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Subject Ocular Motor System; Ocular Motility Disorders; Paramedian Pontine Reticular Formation Lesions
Description The PPRF, which corresponds principally to medial portions of the nucleus reticularis pontis caudalis, contains burst neurons that are important in the generation of saccades, and the paramedian nucleus raphe interpositus contains pause neurons that inhibit burst neurons at all times except during saccades.
Date 2005
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Source Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 6th Edition
Relation is Part of Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology Walsh and Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Walsh and Hoyt Textbook Selections Collection: https://NOVEL.utah.edu
Publisher Wolters Kluwer Health, Philadelphia
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management Copyright 2005. For further information regarding the rights to this collection, please visit: https://NOVEL.utah.edu/about/copyright
ARK ark:/87278/s6642z5b
Setname ehsl_novel_whts
ID 185928
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6642z5b
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