ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2013
Keeping your head on target.
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- Isolated Cervical Dystonia: Diagnosis and Classification.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2023Review
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- Impaired trunk control and its relationship with balance, functional mobility, and disease severity in patients with cervical dystonia.Turkish journal of medical sciences · 2023Article
- Clinical features, pathophysiology, treatment, and controversies of tremor in dystonia.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022Review
- Head tremor in cervical dystonia: Quantifying severity with computer vision.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2022Article
- From null to midline: changes in head posture do not predictably change head tremor in cervical dystonia.Dystonia (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Lessons learned from the syndrome of oculopalatal tremor.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2021Review
- Neuronal Activity of Pallidal Versus Cerebellar Receiving Thalamus in Patients with Cervical Dystonia.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2021Article
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- Pallidal Activity in Cervical Dystonia with and Without Head Tremor.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2020Article
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- Advances in the pathophysiology of adult-onset focal dystonias: recent neurophysiological and neuroimaging evidence.F1000Research · 2020Review
- Soft Material-Enabled, Active Wireless, Thin-Film Bioelectronics for Quantitative Diagnostics of Cervical Dystonia.Advanced materials technologies · 2019Article
- The role of pallidum in the neural integrator model of cervical dystonia.Neurobiology of disease · 2019Article
- Abnormal cerebellar processing of the neck proprioceptive information drives dysfunctions in cervical dystonia.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Cervical sensorimotor control in idiopathic cervical dystonia: A cross-sectional study.Brain and behavior · 2017Article
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Abstract
The mechanisms by which the human brain controls eye movements are reasonably well understood, but those for the head less so. Here, we show that the mechanisms for keeping the head aimed at a stationary target follow strategies similar to those for holding the eyes steady on stationary targets. Specifically, we applied the neural integrator hypothesis that originally was developed for holding the eyes still in eccentric gaze positions to describe how the head is held still when turned toward an eccentric target. We found that normal humans make head movements consistent with the neural integrator hypothesis, except that additional sensory feedback is needed, from proprioceptors in the neck, to keep the head on target. We also show that the complicated patterns of head movements in patients with cervical dystonia can be predicted by deficits in a neural integrator for head motor control. These results support ideas originally developed from animal studies that suggest fundamental similarities between oculomotor and cephalomotor control, as well as a conceptual framework for cervical dystonia that departs considerably from current clinical views.
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