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ArticleFrontiers in neurology2020

Eye Movement Evaluation in Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease Using a Standardized Oculomotor and Neuro-Ophthalmic Disorder Assessment (SONDA).

Alessandro Grillini, Remco J Renken, Anne C L Vrijling, Joost Heutink, Frans W Cornelissen

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Article in Frontiers in neurology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Alessandro GrilliniLaboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Remco J RenkenDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Anne C L VrijlingRoyal Dutch Visio, Center of Expertise for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Huizen, Netherlands.
Joost HeutinkRoyal Dutch Visio, Center of Expertise for Blind and Partially Sighted People, Huizen, Netherlands.
Frans W CornelissenLaboratory for Experimental Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
University Medical Center Groningen · NLVisio · NLUniversity of Groningen · NL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evaluating the state of the oculomotor system of a patient is one of the fundamental tests done in neuro-ophthalmology. However, up to date, very few quantitative standardized tests of eye movements' quality exist, limiting this assessment to confrontational tests reliant on subjective interpretation. Furthermore, quantitative tests relying on eye movement properties, such as pursuit gain and saccade dynamics are often insufficient to capture the complexity of the underlying disorders and are often (too) long and tiring. In this study, we present SONDA (Standardized Oculomotor and Neurological Disorder Assessment): this test is based on analyzing eye tracking recorded during a short and intuitive continuous tracking task. We tested patients affected by Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Parkinson's Disease (PD) and find that: (1) the saccadic dynamics of the main sequence alone are not sufficient to separate patients from healthy controls; (2) the combination of spatio-temporal and statistical properties of saccades and saccadic dynamics enables an identification of oculomotor abnormalities in both MS and PD patients. We conclude that SONDA constitutes a powerful screening tool that allows an in-depth evaluation of (deviant) oculomotor behavior in a few minutes of non-invasive testing.

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assessmentclinicaleye movementmultiple sclerosisParkinson's diseasescreeningstandardized

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PMCPMC7506055
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