This volume of Progress in Brain Research is based on the
proceedings of a conference, "Using Eye Movements as an
Experimental Probe of Brain Function," held at the Charing Cross
Hospital Campus of Imperial College London, UK on 5th -6th
December, 2007 to honor Professor Jean Buttner-Ennever. With 87
contributions from international experts - both basic scientists
and clinicians - the volume provides many examples of how eye
movements can be used to address a broad range of research
questions. Section 1 focuses on extraocular muscle, highlighting
new concepts of proprioceptive control that involve even the
cerebral cortex. Section 2 comprises structural, physiological,
pharmacological, and computational aspects of brainstem mechanisms,
and illustrates implications for disorders as diverse as
opsoclonus, and congenital scoliosis with gaze palsy. Section 3
addresses how the cerebellum transforms neural signals into motor
commands, and how disease of such mechanisms may lead to ataxia and
disorders such as oculopalatal tremor. Section 4 deals with
sensory-motor processing of visual, vestibular, somatosensory, and
auditory inputs, such as are required for navigation, and gait.
Section 5 illustrates how eye movements, used in conjunction with
single-unit electrophysiology, functional imaging, transcranial
magnetic stimulation, and lesion studies have illuminated cognitive
processes, including memory, prediction, and even free will.
Section 6 includes 18 papers dealing with disorders ranging from
congenital to acquired forms of nystagmus, genetic and degenerative
neurological disorders, and treatments for nystagmus and motion
sickness.
* Clinicians will find important new information onthe substrate
for spinocerebellar ataxia, lat-onset Tay-Sachs disease, Huntington
disease, and pulvinar lesions
* Several series of papers address similar issues, providing a
coherent discussion of such topics as proprioception, short and
longer-term memory, and hereditary cerebellar ataxias
* Some articles concerning anatomic tracers, functional imaging,
and computational neuroscience are illustrated in color
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