title: [Fundamentals of the anatomy of oculomotor behavior].
abstract: The oculomotricity rests on complex anatomo-physiological bases and allows the binocular vision, which is a sensory function very completed in the human. After a short embryologic recall, the binocular vision is defined. The anatomical structures, which take part in the binocularity, are reviewed within three functional stages: an effector peripheral stage (eye ball, extrinsic muscles and their nerves), a sub cortical central stage, generator of the movements (oculomotor nuclei, reticularis formation...), and a central, cortical and subcortical stage, incitator of the movements (cortical areas, vestibular nuclei, cerebellum...). These anatomical bases make it possible to understand the many disorders observed in pathology.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Anatomie, Faculté de Médecine, Reims.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Avisse
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Labrousse
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ouedraogo
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000502:physiology*