Alexander's law: its behavior and origin in the human vestibulo-ocular reflex.

Abstract:

:Alexander's law refers to the phenomenon in which the spontaneous nystagmus of a patient with a vestibular lesion is more intense when the patient looks in the quick-phase than in the slow-phase direction. Alexander's law was investigated in normal subjects as well as patients with vestibular lesions. During sinusoidal rotations of normal subjects, there was no trace of this phenomenon when subjects looked 25 degrees left and right in the dark. The phenomenon of Alexander's law is therefore created centrally and is not due to any mechanical properties of the orbit. During rotation at constant velocity in the dark, normal subjects did weakly demonstrate Alexander's law because of a mild gaze-evoked nystagmus present in normal subjects in the dark. Gaze-evoked nystagmus from a cerebellar lesion involved a pronounced demonstration of Alexander's law during rotatory nystagmus. In patients with a vestibular lesion and a mild spontaneous nystagmus in the dark that obeyed Alexander's law, the nystagmus reversed upon far gaze in the slow-phase direction. We propose that in patients with a vestibular lesion, the phenomenon of Alexander's law is created by the sum of vestibular nystagmus and an abnormally large gaze-evoked nystagmus that is consequent to the vestibular lesion. This conclusion has a number of neurological implications concerning the ways in which the nervous system attempts to compensate for vestibular lesions.

journal_name

Ann Neurol

journal_title

Annals of neurology

authors

Robinson DA,Zee DS,Hain TC,Holmes A,Rosenberg LF

doi

10.1002/ana.410160614

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-12-01 00:00:00

pages

714-22

issue

6

eissn

0364-5134

issn

1531-8249

journal_volume

16

pub_type

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