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Voluntary Eye Movements in Whiplash Injuries

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Whiplash Injuries

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Saccades and smooth pursuit eye movements play an important role in the balance system. Essentially their aim is to free foveate animals from the slavery of oculomotor reflexes, such as vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and optokynetic nystagmus (OKN). These voluntary eye movements enable the gaze to be rapidly redirected (saccades) or to slowly follow (smooth pursuit movements) new targets even when the head or surroundings are moving.

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  1. Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, Ospedale di Cattinara, Università di Trieste, 34100, Trieste, Italy

    M. Spanio & S. Rigo

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  1. M. Spanio
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  1. Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Istituto di Audiologia, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Sforza 35, Milan, Italy

    A. Cesarani

  2. ENT, Otoneurological Service Scientific Institute S. Maria N.te, F.ne don Gnocchi, via Capecelatro 66, 20148, Milan, Italy

    D. Alpini

  3. Maître de Conférences, Université de Liège, Rue de Bruxelles 21, B-4800, Verviers, Belgium

    R. Boniver

  4. Neurototologic and Equilibriometry Society (NES), Bad Kissingen, Germany

    C. F. Claussen

  5. Institut de Posturologie, Av. de Corbera 4, Paris, France

    P. M. Gagey

  6. Dept of Otorhinolaryngology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden

    L. Magnusson

  7. Department of Otolaryngology, University Hospital, S-58185, Linköping, Sweden

    L. M. Ödkvist

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Spanio, M., Rigo, S. (1996). Voluntary Eye Movements in Whiplash Injuries. In: Cesarani, A., et al. Whiplash Injuries. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2293-5_12

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