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J Neurophysiol 86: 1546-1554, 2001;
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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 86 No. 4 October 2001, pp. 1546-1554
Copyright ©2001 by the American Physiological Society

Central Positional Nystagmus Simulated by a Mathematical Ocular Motor Model of Otolith-Dependent Modification of Listing's Plane

S. Glasauer, M. Dieterich, and Th. Brandt

Department of Neurology and Center for Sensorimotor Research, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians University, 81377 Munich, Germany

Glasauer, S., M. Dieterich, and Th. Brandt. Central Positional Nystagmus Simulated by a Mathematical Ocular Motor Model of Otolith-Dependent Modification of Listing's Plane. J. Neurophysiol. 86: 1546-1554, 2001. To find an explanation of the mechanisms of central positional nystagmus in neurological patients with posterior fossa lesions, we developed a three-dimensional (3-D) mathematical model to simulate head position-dependent changes in eye position control relative to gravity. This required a model implementation of saccadic burst generation, of the neural velocity to eye position integrator, which includes the experimentally demonstrated leakage in the torsional component, and of otolith-dependent neural control of Listing's plane. The validity of the model was first tested by simulating saccadic eye movements in different head positions. Then the model was used to simulate central positional nystagmus in off-vertical head positions. The model simulated lesions of assumed otolith inputs to the burst generator or the neural integrator, both of which resulted in different types of torsional-vertical nystagmus that only occurred during head tilt in roll plane. The model data qualitatively fit clinical observations of central positional nystagmus. Quantitative comparison with patient data were not possible, since no 3-D analyses of eye movements in various head positions have been reported in the literature on patients with positional nystagmus. The present model, prompted by an open clinical question, proposes a new hypothesis about the generation of pathological nystagmus and about neural control of Listing's plane.




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