title: Comparative clinical studies on foveal and peripheral optokinetic nystagmus.
abstract: Comparative examinations made on patients suffering of a degenerative disease of the retina causing a loss of their macular or their peripheral vision respectively and on patients with a lesion of the frontal or occipital lobe have revealed that the optokinetic nystagmus of patients with a frontal lesion behaves similar to the one elicited in patients with macular pathology, whereas the optokinetic nystagmus of patients with a lesion of the occipital eye fields revealed similar characteristics as the one evoked in patients with tubular field.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology; D005584:Fovea Centralis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008266:Macula Lutea / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009759:Nystagmus, Pathologic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012162:Retinal Degeneration / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*