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“The Eyes Have It”: Saccades and Fixation Defects in Movement Disorders

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The examination of eye movements, and in particular the examination of saccades, is a critical part of the movement disorders examination. Saccadic slowing may be the first sign of an atypical parkinsonian state or of Huntington’s disease, and other eye movement disorders such as ocular flutter or opsoclonus may affect management acutely.

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  1. Division of Movement Disorders, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, The Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA

    Steven J. Frucht

  2. Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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This Chapter reviews the important role that eye movements play in the evaluation of the movement disorders patient. The video is divided into eight segments: saccades in PSP; asaccadia after aortic aneurysm repair; saccades in HD; saccades in choreic neurodegenerative disorders; eye movements in multiple system atrophy; macrosaccadic oscillations in Friedreich’s ataxia; eye movement abnormalities in genetic ataxias; and assorted saccadic disorders (MP4 1913752 kb)

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Frucht, S.J., Termsarasab, P. (2020). “The Eyes Have It”: Saccades and Fixation Defects in Movement Disorders. In: Movement Disorders Phenomenology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36975-0_12

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