AN EYE-MOVEMENT DISORDER IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
AN EYE-MOVEMENT DISORDER IN AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS
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DOI:
10.1212/wnl.31.10.1282
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
9.9
通讯作者:
BARRON, SA
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作者:
JACOBS, L;BOZIAN, D;BARRON, SA
Defective pursuit eye movements were recorded by electrooculography (EOG) in 11 of 18 patients (61%) with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [ALS]. Pursuit defects consisted of a breakdown of smooth tracking into saccadic motions that were grossly in excess (frequencies and amplitudes) of saccadic interruptions of pursuit in normal subjects. In 9 patients, defective pursuits (cogwheeling) were obvious by visual inspection and by EOG; in 2, this abnormality was seen only by EOG. In 8 patients the pursuit defect was the only abnormality of oculomotor function; in 3 there were also saccadic defects (optokinetic nystagmus or conjugate gaze) discerned by EOG. Autopsy revealed neuronal degeneration in substantia nigra and demyelination in internal capsule in 1 patient with the pursuit defect but not in another without the defect. The pursuit defect may be a sign of extrapyramidal or supratentorial pyramidal involvement in ALS.