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Takeichi, N. et al.

Dissociation of smooth pursuit and vestibulo-ocular reflex cancellation in SCA-6.

OBJECTIVE: To study gaze in SCA-6 patients during pursuit and passive whole-body rotation. BACKGROUND: Smooth pursuit and vestibularly induced eye movements interact to maintain the accuracy of eye movements in space (i.e., gaze). Previous studies have implicated the cerebellum, particularly the floccular lobe and dorsal vermis, in the control of gaze velocity during pursuit and vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) cancellation. SCA-6 has recently been identified genetically and characterized as pure cerebellar ataxia that affects the cerebellar cortex selectively. METHODS: Using infrared oculography, eye movements of five SCA-6 patients and five age-matched normal control subjects were recorded during sinusoidal pursuit and passive whole-body rotation in the horizontal plane (amplitude, +/- 10 deg; frequency, 0.2 Hz). Eye and gaze gain (eye and gaze velocity/stimulus velocity) were calculated after deleting saccades. RESULTS: Eye gain of all SCA-6 patients during pursuit was significantly lower than those of the control subjects (mean +/- SD, 0.26+/-0.06 versus 0.91+/-0.07). In contrast, eye gain of the patients was not significantly different from that of the control subjects either during VOR cancellation, when the subjects tracked a target that moved with the same amplitude and phase, like a chair (0.21+/-0.05 versus 0.12+/-0.07), or during visually enhanced VOR (x1), when the target remained stationary in space (0.85+/-0.06 versus 0.95+/-0.05). Moreover, there was no significant difference in mean VOR gain in total darkness between the two groups. Gaze gain of patients (0.26+/-0.06 versus 0.81+/-0.06) but not control subjects (0.91+/-0.07 versus 0.88+/-0.08), was significantly different during pursuit and VOR cancellation. CONCLUSION: SCA-6 patients show dissociation in the control of gaze tracking during smooth pursuit and VOR cancellation.[1]

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Dissociation of smooth pursuit and vestibulo-ocular reflex cancellation in SCA-6. Takeichi, N., Fukushima, K., Sasaki, H., Yabe, I., Tashiro, K., Inuyama, Y. Neurology (2000) [Pubmed]

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