May 23, 2011 -- Multiple sclerosis or Parkinson-plus diseases engender anomalies in eye movements. A new technique, known as eye-tracking (or oculometrics) may enable these pathologies to be diagnosed and/or characterized.
e(ye)BRAIN, who developed eye-tracking neurological diagnosis, has launched a new website dedicated to promoting the technique http://www.eyebrainpedia.com. The aim of the site is to raise awareness amongst doctors and other medical professionals of the benefits of this advance which brings together a set of functions making it possible to record eye movements.
The site covers everything involved in eye movements. The different organs involved in oculomotricity include all the eye muscles, the nerves in the brain that control these muscles, and the neurotransmitters and different regions of the brain that control the movements.
An initial section dealing with the analysis of oculomotricity outlines all the aspects of each type of possible eye movement, namely: the normal movement and its characteristics; the anatomical structures involved in the preparation and execution of the movement; anomalies in the movement; the analytical methods enabling the movement and its anomalies to be quantified; and possibly the correspondences between symptoms and the location of potentially damaged structures.
http://www.eyebrainpedia.com/En/Oculomotricite/ongletOculo.html?page=OculoIntro
The functional structures, which is to say the motor level responsible for the execution of the movement and the cognitive level generating the command is covered in section two. It covers the cerebral hemispheres, the cerebellum, the brain stem and the final effector system.
http://www.eyebrainpedia.com/En/Localisation/ongletLocalisation.html?page=LocalisationIntro
The final section contains some examples of oculomotor examinations.
http://www.eyebrainpedia.com/En/Paradigmes/ongletParadigmes.html?page=ParadigmesIntro
We think this site might interest your readers. Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Juliette dos Santos
About e(ye)BRAIN http://www.eye-brain.com
e(ye)BRAIN is developing systems for assisting the early, targeted and reliable diagnosis of neurological diseases. The Mobile Eye Brain Tracker (or Mobile EBT(R)) is an eye tracker that can perform quick, accurate and automatic eye movement examinations to help practitioners diagnose some neurological diseases. The Mobile EBT(R) was designed to record eye movements triggered by visual stimuli projected onto a computer screen by the meyePARADIGM Player (R) software program. The oculomotor data can then be analyzed using the meyeANALYSIS(R) software.
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