The accessory optic system: the fugitive visual control system in infantile strabismus.
Infantile strabismus inaugurates a constellation of dissociated eye movements that correspond to visuovestibular reflexes in lateral-eyed animals. These visual reflexes are generated by subcortical visual pathways that use binocular visual input to modulate central vestibular tone. In this article, I present evidence that the accessory optic system is uniquely suited to provide an innervational substrate for visuovestibular eye movements in humans with infantile strabismus.
Departments of Ophthalmology and Neurology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA. Brodsky.michael@mayo.edu
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D000818:Animals; D005133:Eye Movements / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009039:Motion Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000502:physiology; D011817:Rabbits; D012027:Reflex, Vestibulo-Ocular / Q000502:physiology*; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003336:Tectum Mesencephali / Q000502:physiology*; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*