The Neurology of Eye Movements

This new edition of "Leigh and Zee's Neurology of Eye Movements" is available as an enhanced edition for the first time. Your purchase of the print version includes access to the online version via Oxford Medicine Online. By activating your unique access code, you can discover more than 200 videos, view and enlarge nearly 250 high resolution images, and annotate the work for future personal reference. The Neurology of Eye Movements, edition 5 has two interrelated parts. The first comprises a modern synthesis of the anatomical, physiological, and pharmacological substrate for eye movements, including current views on the reflexive and voluntary control of gaze. This synthesis is based on electrophysiological and inactivation studies in macaque, and behavioural studies in humans that incorporate functional imaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in normals, and clinicopathological studies in patients with neurological, visual, or vestibular disorders. Sophisticated experimental paradigms have been applied to both species to explore aspects of cognition, memory, volition, and reward.This large body of research has demonstrated the power of eye movements as experimental tools. The second part of the book applies this synthesis to the clinical and laboratory evaluation of patients with abnormal eye movements due to a broad range of disorders - from muscular dystrophy, and genetic disorders, to dementia, including visual and vestibular conditions. By placing links to figures, tables, boxes, and videos, a synthesis of basic research and clinical findings is provided, that may shed new light on disease processes and provide insights on normal brain function.

Dr. Zee first came to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore in 1965 as a medical student and then trained there in neurology after an internal medicine internship at Cornell Medical Center in New York. Both his research and clinical focus has been on eye movement and vestibular disorders. He has had three sabbatical years at the National Eye Institute in their Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research. He first began working with Dr. Leigh in the late 1970s when Dr. Leigh was at Hopkins as a fellow and then a faulty member.

The bible for neurological and opthalmological clinicians and researchers alike. Louis R. Caplan, Harvard Medical School. The 5th edition is a must for all neurologists and neuroscientists interested in how the human vestibular and oculomotor system adapt to movement in space and to viewing the world and its contents Louis R. Caplan, Harvard Medical School. One of the classics in the neurological literature It is a tremendous achievement to have provided this highly comprehensive but readable text, which informs such a large group of researchers and clinicians. Christopher Kennard, John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford A monograph written with deep knowledge, understanding, wisdom, clarity, intelligibility - the superlatives could go on and on Michael Halmagyi, University of Sydney Not only should it stand in your bookcase but it should also be accessible in electronic form on several electronic devices. Michael Strupp, University of Munich There is no other book on ocular movements that combines a co