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Disturbance of smooth pursuit caused by infarction of occipitoparietal cortex
Author(s) -
Leigh R. John,
Tusa Ronald J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
annals of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.764
H-Index - 296
eISSN - 1531-8249
pISSN - 0364-5134
DOI - 10.1002/ana.410170213
Subject(s) - smooth pursuit , stimulus (psychology) , acceleration , medicine , neuroscience , eye movement , physics , psychology , cognitive psychology , classical mechanics
Two distinct deficits of ocular smooth pursuit could be demonstrated using two types of visual stimulus motion in a patient who had suffered bilateral occipitoparietal lobe infarction. First, in response to constant‐velocity (zero accleration) target motion, smooth pursuit gain (eye velocity/target velocity) was mildly impaired for tracking to the right but near normal for tracking to the left. For example, for a target moving at 28.5 degrees/sec, gain was 0.65 to the right but 0.85 to the left. Second, in response to high‐acceleration sinusoidal target motion, there was a deficit in maximum eye acceleration for targets moving right and left. The patient was unable to accelerate his eyes faster than 48 degrees/sec 2 to the right and 95 degrees/sec 2 to the left (normal is more than 300 degrees/sec 2 ). It is suggested that smooth pursuit should be routinely tested using stimuli with a wide range of accelerations.