Observations on stimulation of the human frontal eye field

✍ Scribed by Lloyd Jean Lemmen; James Sutton Davis; Leonard Lawrence Radnor

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 279 KB
• Volume: 112
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0021-9967
• DOI: 10.1002/cne.901120114

✦ Synopsis

Voluntary deviation of the eyes depends upon intact frontal eye fiellds and connections from these cortical centers to the eye muscle nuclei. Reciprocal innervation of eye muscles by the human frontal eye fields has been indicated in a previous study (Lemmen, Fisher and Davis, '58). All observers have obtained conjugate deviation of the eyes toward the side opposite stimulation from this cortical area (Crosby, '53). Experimental study in monkeys has revealed a variety of other types of eye movements from stimulation of the frontal eye fields. Information remains incomplete about these latter eye movements in the human frontal eye fields. Cortical stimulation for localization purposes during a human operation has revealed various eye movements. The observations suggested a cortical pattern in the human frontal cortex for eye movements in a variety of directions.

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The authors are indebted t o the Staff of the Medical Illustration Service for the drawings. We wish t o thank Drs. E. C. Crosby and T. Humphrey for their helpful advice.