Adaptive programming of phasic and tonic components in saccadic eye movements. Investigations of patients with abducens palsy.
Two patients with unilateral abducens palsy used their paretic-but visually superior-eye for fixation. In these patients, adaptive changes of saccadic amplitude and of the relation between phasic and tonic components of saccades were found. These changes led to a reduction of foveation time.
D000010:Abducens Nerve / Q000503:physiopathology; D004585:Electrooculography; D005133:Eye Movements; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009886:Ophthalmoplegia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012438:Saccades