Cerebellar Control of Saccadic Eye Movements:
Its Neural Mechanism and Pathways

by Hiroharu Noda, MD, PhD
Professor of School of Optometry, Indiana University (1981-1991)

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• Ohtsuka, K. and Noda, H. (1991) Saccadic burst neurons in the oculomotor region of the fastigial nucleus of macaque monkeys. J. Neurophysiol., 65: 1422-1434.

• Ohtsuka K. and Noda, H. (1991) The effect of microstimulation of the oculomotor vermis on discharges of fastigial neurons and visually-directed saccades in macaques. Neurosci Res., 10:290 295.

• Sato H. and Noda, H. (1991) Divergent axon collaterals from fastigial oculomotor region to mesodiencephalic junction and paramedian pontme leticular formation in macaques. Neurosci Res., 11: 41-54. 318.

• Sugita, S. and Noda, H. (1991) Pathways and terminations of axons arising in the fastigial oculomotor region of macaque monkeys. Neurosci Res., 10: 118-136.

• Yamada, J. and Noda, H. (1987) Afferent and efferent connections of the oculomotor cerebellar vermis in the macaque monkey. J. Comp. Neurol., 265: 224-241.