Ocular Motility: Lecture 5: Fixational Eye Movements Flashcards
1
Q
- Does the eye remain perfectly motionless during an attempted steady fixation on a Stationary Object?
A
- NO! it does not
2
Q
Fixational Area Increases w/Increased Fixation Duration
- Fixation for 10 seconds?
- 20 seconds?
- for 1 minute?
A
- +/- 7.5 min arc
- +/- 30 min arc
- Fixation is CENTRAL and in CLOSE Proximity to the target
3
Q
Eye movements During Fixation
What 3 things occur?
A
- Drift
- Microsaccade
- Tremor
4
Q
Eye Movements
- Tremor: What is it?
a. Relation to AMPLITUDE?
b. What is it in the Oculomotor System?
c. Impact on Vision? - Freq?
- Amp?
- Vel?
- OU?
- Other?
A
- High Frequency movement ranging from 30-100 Hz
a. Inversely Related to Amplitude
b. Noise
c. No - 30-100 Hz
- 20 arc secs
- 30 arc min/sec
- Not correlated
- Frequency inversely related to Amplitude
5
Q
Eye Movements
- Drift: What is it?
- Drift Amplitude INCREASES slightly when what is generated?
- Drift makes up more than 95% of what?
- Freq?
- Amp?
- Vel?
- OU?
- Other?
A
- A Low Velocity Irregular Eye Movement
- When Retinal Errors are generated from the Near and Far Retinal Periphery
- of one’s Total Fixation Time
4.
6
Q
Eye Movements
- Microsaccade: What is it?
- Freq?
- Amp?
- Duration?
- OU?
- Other?
A
- Error Correcting
- 1-2/sec
- 1-25 min arc; Mean is 5 min arc
- 10-25 msec
- Bin & High Amp correlation
- Large Dynamic Overshoot
7
Q
Ocular Drift
- Light: What happens to Ocular Drift?
- Dark: What happens to Drift Velocity?
- What are drifts?
- In the presence of Visual feedback, what happens to the Accuracy of Fixation?
A
- It INCREASES over a 1.6 sec period
- Drift Velocity is INCREASED
- Error producing and Microsaccades are Error Correcting
- It was GREATLY INCREASED
8
Q
- Fixational Eye Movement is ROBUST to changes in response to what?
- Fixation in Darkness has the MOST what?
- Is there an Age related Effect in Overall Stability?
A
- to EXTERNAL STIMULI
- the Most Deleterious Effects on Accuracy of Fixation
- NO!
9
Q
Neurophysiology of Fixation
- What 6 areas are involved?
A
- Parietal Eye Field (Lateral Interparietal Area and Area 7a in monkeys)
- V5 and V5A (MT and MST in Monkeys)
- Supplementary Eye Field
- Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex
- Substantia Nigra Pars Reticulata in the Basal Ganglia
- Rostral Pole of the Superior Colliculus
10
Q
Anormal Fixation
- What 3 things are there?
A
- Nystagmus
- Saccadic Intrusion
- Slow Drift
11
Q
Aberrant Tremor
- What is it?
- ABSENCE of what?
- PRESENCE of what 2 things?
- Extended periods of what?
- OVERALL REDUCTION in what?
A
- Different Overall Patterns b/w the 2 eyes.
- of High-Frequency Bursts
- of Irregular and Low Frequency Bursts of Latitude
- of Very Low-Frequency Movement
- in the Dominant Frequency Response
12
Q
Slow Drift
- Found in Persons with what?
- Amplitude of up to what?
- Velocity less than what?
- Frequency?
- Generally not rapid enough to degrade what?
- Observed with what?
- Drift Improves with what?
A
- with Functional Amblyopia
- 1 degree
- than 3 degrees per second
- Irregular, Slow Frequency (
13
Q
Saccadic Intrusions
- Found in what 3 things?
- What does it do?
- Is it affected by age?
A
- Normals, Functional Strabismus, and Cerebellar Disease
- Jerks the eye away from the object of regard via a SACCADE and Approx 200 msec later return the eye back to original position by a second opposite second (??)
- No
14
Q
Square Wave Jerk
- What can they be found in?
- Amplitude
- Time Course
- Latency
- Foveation
- Presence in Darkness
A
- Sq-wave jerks found in Strabismus can be transiently suppressed
- 0.5-3 deg, constant
- Sporadic
- 200 msec
- Yes
- Yes
15
Q
Saccadic Intrusions (2)
- Macro Square-wave Jerks are what?
a. They occur more frequently (how much)
b. They remove the eye from the target for how much time?
c. Found in what 2 things? - Amplitude
- Time Course
- Latency
- Foveation
- Presence in Darkness
A
- Are LARGER
a. 2-3 Hz
b. For a Shorter Period of time (100 msec)
c. Cerebellar Disease and MS - 4-30 degrees
- Bursts
- 50-150 msec
- Yes
- Yes