CEREBELLAR-DEPENDENT ADAPTIVE-CONTROL OF PRIMATE SACCADIC SYSTEM
CEREBELLAR-DEPENDENT ADAPTIVE-CONTROL OF PRIMATE SACCADIC SYSTEM
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DOI:
10.1152/jn.1980.44.6.1058
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
ROBINSON, DA
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作者:
OPTICAN, LM;ROBINSON, DA
The ability of the CNS to compensate for saccadic dysmetria was demonstrated in rhesus monkeys. The behavior of this adaptive mechanism after cerebellar ablations was examined. Monkeys were trained to fixate small target lights. Eye movements were monitored while the animals were seated with their heads fixed, in a rotating magnetic field. The horizontal recti muscles of 1 eye were weakened by tenectomy. Saccades made by this weakened eye were hypometric, and followed by postsaccadic drift. When the patch was switched so that the weak eye was viewing, the hypometric saccades made by the weak eye gradually became larger. After 3 days they were essentially orthometric. The CNS apparently compensated for a peripheral weakness. The tenectomy operation reduced the strength of the muscles, creating hypometria, and upset the ratio of viscosity to elasticity in the orbit, producing postsaccadic drift in the weak eye. The innervation required to make a saccade has phasic and tonic components, the so-call pulse and step. The saccadic repair mechanism increased the pulse and the step to compensate for the hypometria, and adjusted the ratio of the pulse to the step to eliminate postsaccadic drift. Total cerebellectomies were performed on 2 monkeys with 1 tenectomized eye each. These ablations created and enduring saccadic hypermetria and postsaccadic drift in the unoperated eye of both animals. The total cerebellectomy abolished all adaptive repair of the saccadic system. Partial cerebellectomies were performed on 2 monkeys, each of which had 1 tenectomized eye. Lesions of the vermis and paravermis (lobes IV-IX) and the fastigial nuclei created an enduring saccadic hypermetria, without postsaccadic drift in the unoperated eye of both animals. The lesions abolished adaptive control of the pulse of innervation. Adaptive changes in the step of innervation still occurred, so that postsaccadic drift was always eliminated in the experienced, viewing eye. The midline cerebellum (vermis, paravermis and fastigial nuclei) appears important for repair of saccadic dysmetria, but not for repair of postsaccadic drift. Postsaccadic retinal slip was not compensated for in flocculectomized monkeys. The adaptive control of the step may depend on the flocculus. After cerebellar lesions the monkeys were able to make saccades of all amplitudes and directions. The principal deficit in these animals seemed to be that the pulse and step of innervation were no longer appropriate to the target displacement. The cerebellum''s principal contribution to saccadic eye movements is the adjustment of the gains of the pulse- and step-generating mechanisms. Repair of dysmetria apparently is a general function of the cerebellum.