Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas

P Nachev, C Kennard, M Husain - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
The supplementary motor complex consists of the supplementary motor area, the
supplementary eye field and the pre-supplementary motor area. In recent years, these areas …

Neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of reflexive and volitional saccades: evidence from studies of humans

JE McDowell, KA Dyckman, BP Austin, BA Clementz - Brain and cognition, 2008 - Elsevier
This review provides a summary of the contributions made by human functional
neuroimaging studies to the understanding of neural correlates of saccadic control. The …

Eye movements in Alzheimer's disease

RJ Molitor, PC Ko, BA Ally - Journal of Alzheimer's disease, 2015 - content.iospress.com
A growing body of literature has investigated changes in eye movements as a result of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). When compared to healthy, age-matched controls, patients …

Visual symptoms in Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease dementia

NK Archibald, MP Clarke, UP Mosimann… - Movement …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Visual symptoms are common in PD and PD dementia and include difficulty reading, double
vision, illusions, feelings of presence and passage, and complex visual hallucinations …

[HTML][HTML] Human medial frontal cortex mediates unconscious inhibition of voluntary action

P Sumner, P Nachev, P Morris, AM Peters, SR Jackson… - Neuron, 2007 - cell.com
Within the medial frontal cortex, the supplementary eye field (SEF), supplementary motor
area (SMA), and pre-SMA have been implicated in the control of voluntary action, especially …

Role of supplementary eye field in saccade initiation: executive, not direct, control

V Stuphorn, JW Brown… - Journal of …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
The goal of this study was to determine whether the activity of neurons in the supplementary
eye field (SEF) is sufficient to control saccade initiation in macaque monkeys performing a …

What do eye movements tell us about patients with neurological disorders?—An introduction to saccade recording in the clinical setting—

Y Terao, H Fukuda, O Hikosaka - … of the Japan Academy, Series B, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Non-invasive and readily implemented in the clinical setting, eye movement studies have
been conducted extensively not only in healthy human subjects but also in patients with …

At the edge of consciousness: automatic motor activation and voluntary control

P Sumner, M Husain - The Neuroscientist, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Conventionally, voluntary conscious acts and automatic behavior have been considered to
be mediated by separate processes—and by separate brain structures. In this review, the …

Ocular motor abnormalities in Parkinsonian syndromes

EH Pinkhardt, J Kassubek - Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 2011 - Elsevier
Oculomotor abnormalities can be observed in all Parkinsonian syndromes (PS).
Nevertheless, due to the considerable overlap of oculomotor pathology in Parkinsonism …

The role of the ventrolateral frontal cortex in inhibitory oculomotor control

T Hodgson, M Chamberlain, B Parris, M James… - Brain, 2007 - academic.oup.com
It has been proposed that the inferior/ventrolateral frontal cortex plays a critical role in the
inhibitory control of action during cognitive tasks. However, the contribution of this region to …