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Figure 10–5. Illustrated is the use of a set of binocular infrared video goggle system..
movements that function independently of the periph­eral vestibular system.
As one approaches the assessment of the ocular motor system functioning independently of the periph­eral vestibular system (during head still examinations), four principal ocular control events are evaluated. These include the following:
1. Saccade testing — This is the ability to move the
eyes in a rapid single movement to refixate a target of interest onto the fovea (the most sensitive part of the retina) for clear viewing.
2. Smooth pursuit tracking — This is the ability to
track the movement of a target of interest maintain­ing the image on the fovea with smooth continuous eye movements, as opposed to tracking with the use of repeated saccades.
3. Gaze stability — This refers to the ability to main-
tain gaze stable without the generation of other eye movements (principally jerk nystagmus) while looking straight ahead (primary), left, right, up, and down.
4. Optokinetic nystagmus — This is the development
of reflexive eye movements in the form of jerk nys­tagmus during the visualization of moving objects that fill 80% to 90% or greater of the visual field of view. Ostensibly, the purpose for the generation of the nystagmus is to assist clear visual viewing
when the head is in constant velocity motion, or the head is still and objects of interest are moving in a regular manner, or both are moving at con­stant velocities that are not equal, in which case the the vestibulo-ocular reflex is normally inhibited in order to maintain a clear visual view by preventing the eyes from counter-rotating off the visual scene.
Saccade Testing
Technical Considerations
To assess saccadic eye movement, targets need to be presented that require sudden rapid movements of the eyes. In the past, this has been accomplished with the use of fixed targets placed on a wall or screen such that when the patient was seated at a particular distance from the target plane, eye movements to each target from the center would require a 10- to 15-degree sub­tended arc movement of the eyes. This task was used for calibration of the system and for a cursory evaluation of volitional saccades. With the use of computerized systems, targets can now be presented via light bars or through video projection systems. More importantly, the task can be either that of presenting fixed position targets or targets that appear randomly in different positions in the horizontal or vertical planes. Also, it is
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possible to present the targets at random time intervals together with the random location. Although fixed tar­get location and timing are used for certain paradigms, producing volitional saccades (predictable targets), the use of random saccade testing is preferable in the overall evaluation to elicit reflexive saccades (ability to react when a target of interest suddenly appears at a new location). Targets fixed or random are usually presented within a ±30-degree range of subtended arc movement of the eye. Saccade testing, specifically the use of a broad bandpass filter of 10 to 100 Hz and a sampling rate of a minimum of 60 Hz with 100 Hz or higher, is now advised by the American National Stan­dards Institute for ENG/VNG (ANSI, 2009).
It is also with this task that individual eye evalua-
tion is the preferred technique. This is secondary to the
need to recognize disorders involved with disconjugate eye movements such as intranuclear ophthalmoplegia (see case examples below). If using EOG for this task, additional electrodes may need to be placed near the medial canthus of each eye paired with those at the lat­eral canthus to obtain individual horizontal eye move­ments (refer to Figure 10–3 above).
Parameters for Saccade Testing Analysis
Refer to the bottom two panels of Figure 10–6 as each of the analysis parameters are defined:
n Velocity — the plot on the left presents the
“main sequence plot.” This is a plot of the peak velocity of the eye movement during
figure 10–6. Results of a normal random saccade test via individual eye video recordings on a 49-year-old female diagnosed with unilateral vestibular hypofunction secondary to vestibular neuronitis. The top two panels provide a sample of the traces showing the target in the dark line and the left and right recorded eye movements in the lighter line. The left eye is in the top panel with the right eye in the second panel. The third and fourth panels give the quantitative analysis for the saccade test. Each dot represents the analysis of a single saccade out of the total of 30 presented for the test. From the left to the right in both the third and fourth panels the plots are for velocity (main sequence plot), accuracy, and latency all as a function of the excursions of the eyes. The left eye analysis is in panel three with the right eye analysis in the fourth panel.
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the trajectory from the initial point of regard to the new eye location. Note that if the sampling rate is less than 100 Hz, the plot is more representative of the average velocity, not truly peak velocity. The eye velocities are plotted as a function of the excursion distance of the eye in degrees of subtended arc movement, not the movement of the target.
n Accuracy — the center plot gives the percent-
age of the distance the eye moved in its first single movement relative to that of the target as a function of eye movement excursion. One hundred percent indicates that the eye moved the same distance as the target in a single major excursion. Values over 100% indicate an overshoot, whereas those under 100% show an undershoot.
n Latency — the final plot to the right reflects the
lapsed time in milliseconds from the initiation of the target movement to the initiation of the eye movement, again as a function of eye movement excursion.
In each of the plots, the abnormal region is defined as two standard deviations below the mean in the main sequence plot, two standard deviations above and below the mean in the accuracy plot, and two stan­dard deviations above the mean in the latency plot and shown by the stippled region. These plots are typically analyzed such that if 50% of the saccades sampled for any of the three parameters are within the normal range, the saccade test is considered normal. Age­related normative data are not needed for routine clini­cal analysis of saccade testing by either fixed, random, or remembered paradigms (Hain, 1993; Leigh & Zee, 2006; Shepard & Telian, 1996). A sample of normative data for individual eye recordings (electro-oculography techniques) from 46 subjects of age 19 to 49, 15 of age 50 to 69, 8 from 70 to 79, and 7 from 80 to 88 is shown in Figure 10–7. In the figure the population responses with means and two standard deviation ranges are given for all three parameters discussed above. In the main sequence plot in Figure 10–7, abduction veloci­ties are lower than adduction velocities. This is a find­ing that has been reported previously (Boghen, Troost, Daroff, Dell’Osso, & Birkett, 1974) again by the use of EOG recording techniques. In this work it was deter­mined that a consistent relationship between the peak velocity and the size of the excursion of the saccade was present — the larger the excursion of the saccade, the higher the peak velocity up to about 500 degrees/
second. It was also demonstrated that the duration of the saccade also lengthened with the increase in excur­sion up to about 100 ms. This duration is shorter than that needed to obtain visual feedback, implying that adjustments in the speed of the saccade and the final destination of the eye movement cannot be adjusted while the saccadic eye movement is in progress. Com­parisons with other eye movement recording tech­niques suggest that this may be unique to the use of EOG techniques, as use of scleral search coils and infra­red reflections show the opposite (Leigh & Zee, 2006). In a direct comparison between VOG and search coils for saccade, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystag­mus in both an artificial and human eye during roll plane rotation, the mean differences between the VOG and the search coil were 0.56, 0.78, and 0.18 degrees of rotation for the roll, pitch, and yaw (horizontal) planes, respectively (Imai et al., 2005). The implication from this is that normative data for saccade testing need to be those developed from the video recordings, but if EOG techniques are used, then the normative ranges for comparison should be those developed with the EOG technique. It has not been demonstrated, irre­spective of the recording technique, that age-related normative ranges are needed for the clinical study of saccades.
Interpretation of Saccade Testing
There are several protocols for testing saccadic activ­ity. These are all well documented in the literature for ENG or VNG applications (Jacobson, Newman, & Kar­tush, 1993; Leigh & Zee, 2006; Shepard & Telian, 1996). Therefore, we concentrate our interpretation discussion on what has become the most common protocol used for routine clinical evaluation of saccadic eye move­ments, the random saccade paradigm. Recognize that, in general, the interpretation of a fixed saccade para­digm will be like that detailed below for the random saccade paradigm.
As indicated above, the parameters used for analysis of a saccadic eye movement are the latency to onset after the presentation of a target at a new loca­tion, the accuracy with which that movement is made, and the peak velocity of the eye during the movement. The combined use of these three allows for possible suggestions of localization of involvement within the CNS based on the neurologic substrate responsible for the performance aspects of each of the three outcome parameters. Saccade testing abnormalities do not occur as a result of peripheral vestibular system lesions but
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a figure 10–7. A. Shown are the individual eye data for a random saccade paradigm for the left eye of the 76
subjects with age distributions as given in the text. The graph on the top left gives latency to onset of saccade eye movements, the top right plots percent accuracy, and the bottom graph shows the peak velocity all as a function of the excursion of the eye. continues
reflect CNS lesion sites (Tables 10–1 to 10–3). A detailed discussion of the current state of knowledge of the neu­ral pathways responsible for saccade production is pro­vided by Leigh and Zee (2006); only a brief summary of the salient aspects of that information is presented below. The neural substrate information is then used to develop the interpretation suggestions given for abnor­malities related to saccade velocity, accuracy, and laten-
cies or combinations of these parameters in Tables 10–1, 10–2, and 10–3, respectively.
For a horizontal or vertical reflexive saccade via the random saccade paradigm, the initiation of the movement results from the presentation of a target of interest in a new location. The horizontal reflexive eye movement that brings gaze to the new target is primar­ily engendered by excitatory burst neurons (EBNs) in
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b figure 10–7. continued B. The right eye results for latency, accuracy, and velocity are given in the same orientation
as in part A. From Practical Management of the Balance Disorder Patient, by Shepard, N. T., and Telian, S. A., 1996, pp. 100–103. Used with permission.
the paramedian pontine reticular formation (PPRF) in the caudal pons (van Gisbergen, Robinson, & Gielen,
1981). For vertical and torsional saccades, the excitatory burst neurons are part of the rostral interstitial nucleus of the medial longitudinal fasciculus (riMLF) in the ros­tral mesencephalon (King & Fuchs, 1979; Vilis, Hepp, Schwarz, & Henn, 1989). These premotor neurons initi­ate bursts of activity approximately 12 ms prior to the actual initiation of the eye movement. However, while the premotor neurons connect with cranial nerve nuclei
III and VI, the neural circuit also involves activity from inhibitory and omnipause neurons in the brainstem and midbrain areas in a complex network allowing for the activity of the EBN to initiate eye movements (see Chapter 3 in this text for a more detailed discussion) with velocities proportional to the neural firing rate (Leigh & Zee, 2006). There is a growing body of evi­dence that for both horizontal and vertical voluntary saccades, areas other than simply frontal eye fields of the frontal lobe and brainstem and midbrain circuits are
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table 10–1. Abnormalities of Saccade Velocity
Slowing both eyes, all directions with full ocular
range-of-motion
Fatigue, medications, drowsiness
PPRF for horizontal movements and RIMLF for
vertical
Cerebral hemispheres, superior colliculus,
cerebellum
Early in myasthenia gravis especially with
repeated activity movement and slowing as the target is approached (
Slowing either eye, restricted directions
For horizontal PPRF
For vertical RIMLF
For horizontal on adduction only (monocular
or binocular) slowing (
Cranial nerves III, IV, VI, or muscle palsy
Abnormally fast
Later in myasthenia gravis of ocular type (Leigh
&
Calibration errors
Restriction syndromes (see text for explanation)
INO)
Zee, 2006)
— glissades, initial fast
Leigh & Zee, 2006)
— MLF lesion on the side of the
involved. These include the superior colliculus, cerebel­lum, various regions of the frontal lobe, the posterior parietal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus. A synthesis of this literature is provided by Leigh and Zee (2006).
Primary control over the velocity of the saccadic movement is engendered by the PPRF in the pons. Yet not all saccadic slowing disorders are from the pons region of the brainstem. A useful generality is that global slowing (both eyes in both directions with full ocular range of motion) could involve either the PPRF or the riMLF (see Chapter 3 for complete discussion), yet higher centers such as the superior colliculus and cerebral hemispheres need to be considered. If the slowing is restricted to involve only one eye or a single direction, then slowing of abduction is most likely a sixth nerve palsy with monocular slowing of adduc­tion, which would be most likely internuclear ophthal­moplegia (INO) with an ipsilateral medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) lesion (see Chapter 3 for a full discus­sion of the effects of lesions in these areas). See Table 10–1 for other considerations.
In the performance of saccade testing, more so than during other portions of the ENG/VNG, individ-
table 10–2. Abnormalities of Accuracy
Hypometria (undershoot)
Fatigue, medications, drowsiness Bilateral — cerebellar dorsal vermis (Leigh &
Zee, 2006) Unilateral — ipsilateral cerebellar/brainstem Visual acuity or visual field cuts Myasthenia gravis for large saccades Brainstem burst neuron providing too short of a
burst Cerebral hemispheric — contralateral to the
lesion more likely if the patient demonstrates
neglect (
Hypermetria (overshoot)
Cerebellar Bilateral — cerebellar fastigial nucleus (Leigh &
Zee, 2006)
table 10–3. Abnormalities of Latency
Both eyes in all directions
Fatigue, medication, drowsiness Frontal eye fields, but likely for remembered
or antisaccade tasks as opposed to reflexive
random saccade paradigm Visual deficits — severe reductions in acuity,
amblyopia (Ciuffreda, Kenyon, &
Both eyes for fixed saccade paradigms — learned
or commanded tasks
Basal ganglia as in Parkinson’s and other
disorders of motor initiation where target
location and timing of movement is regular
Lasker & Zee, 1997; Lasker, Zee, & Hain, 1987)
(
Abnormally short latency
Highly unusual — most likely patient anticipating
target movement, needs reinstruction
Superior colliculus and pathways to reticular
formation in the brainstem (Leigh & Zee, 2006)
Meienberg, Harrer, & Wehren, 1986)
Stark, 1978)
ual eye recordings should be made if at all possible. It is during saccade testing that disconjugate eye move­ments are accentuated. The hallmark eye movement disorder causing disconjugate movement is that of INO. In this disorder the adducting (moving toward the midline) eye is abnormally slow. Recognition of the condition immediately implies a lesion in the MLF on
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the side of the eye with the adduction slowing (Leigh & Zee, 2006). Additionally, when INO is bilateral, there is a presumptive diagnosis of multiple sclerosis until proven otherwise. Video 10–1 shows the eye move­ments of a 44-year-old male with multiple sclerosis. The eye movements were captured during VNG sac-
cade testing and illustrate bilateral INO. Figure 10–8 shows the recorded analysis for the eye movement in Video 10–1. Video 10–2 shows the eye movements of a 30-year-old male during random saccade testing, with Figure 10–9 illustrating the recorded analysis for Video 10–2. In this example, the eye movements and
figure 10–8. The recorded eye movement from individual eye recordings for the 44-year-old male in Video10–1 who was subsequently diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The column of results on the left is for the right eye with the right column representing the left eye. The top two panels indicate peak velocity; the middle two show accuracy, and the bottom two are for latency all as a function of the excursion of the eyes. The larger light color dots represent average performance for the parameter at the specific excursion with the small black dots the performance for individual saccades. The velocity panels clearly show, as seen in the video, slowing of each eye on adduction indicating bilateral INO. Additionally, abnormal slowing is noted for both eyes dominantly on movements to the right. note that analysis is done based on needing 50% of the individual saccades to be outside the normal range for a particular aspect of the study to be considered abnormal.
figure 10–9. Saccade performance from the 30-year-old male in Video 10–2 demonstrating left-side INO and
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subsequently diagnosed with a left-side brainstem stroke. See legend for Figure 10–8 for details of the figure lay­out. Additionally, the top two panels show samples of the raw eye movement for five saccades. The lighter trace is the actual eye movements with the black trace the target movement. Right eye represented on the left and left eye on the right. In the velocity plot for the left eye significant slowing is noted for adduction.
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analysis are consistent with left-side unilateral INO. The patient was shown to have had an ischemic stroke on the left involving the left MLF pathway.
Abnormally fast saccades typically occur as a result of the saccade being prematurely halted before reaching the target (restriction syndrome) (Leigh & Zee, 2006). This can occur as a result of disease pro­cess that reduces the range of motion of an eye (such as myasthenia gravis) or a mechanical restriction in range of motion (such as trauma or a mass lesion), making the saccade too fast for its actual recorded amplitude, though likely normal velocity for its larger intended amplitude (Leigh & Zee, 2006). During ENG or VNG testing, inac­curate calibration needs to be ruled out as a cause for apparent abnormally fast saccade performance.
The cerebellum, specifically the dorsal vermis and fastigial nucleus regions, are major contributors to the accuracy with which saccades are performed (Leigh & Zee, 2006). Yet although overshoot dysmetria (hyper­metria) is considered a strong indication of cerebellar involvement, the possibilities for involvement in the presences of hypometric (undershoot dysmetria) sac­cades are considerably broader (Leigh & Zee, 2006). Patients with severe visual acuity deficits, especially macular degeneration, may perform the saccades to targets by using multiple smaller saccades, because during a random saccade task the target direction is clear but placing the target on the fovea becomes dif­ficult. Patients with visual field cuts that involve a full or partial hemisphere (hemianopia) will produce hypometric saccades. Here also combinations of brain­stem and cerebellar lesion may result in mild to severe undershooting of the target (Leigh & Zee, 2006).
Another aspect of saccade accuracy is related to the mentioned ocular lateralpulsion introduced in the section on gaze testing (a full discussion of the anat­omy and examination findings is given in Chapter 3). This directional bias of saccades is most commonly ipsipulsion, with hypermetric saccades (overshoot) to the lesion side and hypometric saccades to the contra­lateral side (undershoot).
The last attribute of a saccade is the length of time to initiation of the eye movement (latency) once a target of interest appears or a command is given to gaze at an already existing target within the visual field. Lesions in the PPRF or riMLF involving the burst neurons could cause delays in the initiation of the eye movement horizontally or vertically but this would represent an unusual situation. The process to initiate the burst neu­ron activity involves multiple other central areas that could result in delayed onset of burst neuron activity and ultimately in an increase in latency for the desired saccade. The involvement may be from visual acuity
problems, and amblyopia (Ciuffreda, Kenyon, & Stark,
1978) to visual eye fields in the frontal cortex (Leigh & Zee, 2006). Likely more with latency than either veloc­ity or accuracy, the state of the patient regarding medi­cation, drowsiness, and attention highly influences the results. It is with latency more so than with velocity or accuracy that the paradigm differences between fixed (volitional or commanded) saccades and the random paradigm reflexive saccades are seen. Basal ganglia involvement can cause increased latencies to fixed sac­cades yet show normal initiation timing with random saccades (Leigh & Zee, 2006).
Once drugs, inattention, drowsiness, fatigue, and impaired visual acuity are ruled out, then any abnor­mality with saccade performance must be considered as a potential indicator of CNS or peripheral ocular motor involvement. It would not be reasonable to con­sider peripheral vestibular system involvement as a possible source for disruptions in any of the saccade parameters discussed above.
When performing an antisaccade paradigm, the primary means for analysis during an ENG or VNG is percent error. This would be a ratio of the number of saccadic eye movements that were made in the direc­tion of the target movement to the number made in the opposite direction (the desired response). With prac­tice you should expect patients to be able to perform the antisaccade task with a percent of error near zero for an interval of 5 to 10 s. When overall performance from the start to the end of the task was investigated in a large number of young healthy male subjects, the percent error has been noted to be 23% with a large variance of 17% (Evdokimidis et al., 2002). If perfor­mance is such that correct sustained saccades cannot be obtained for 5 to 10 s, then involvement in the eye fields of the frontal cortex must be considered (Leigh & Zee, 2006).
Pursuit Tracking/Smooth Pursuit Tracking
Technical Considerations
General filter setting would be the same as for saccade testing with a low-pass filter at 100 Hz and a high­pass filter, if used, at 3 to 10 Hz. Like saccade testing, a 60 Hz notch filter can be used as required. For pursuit tracking, the issue of the sampling rate of the video or electrode system is not as critical as in saccade testing given the much slower eye velocity being captured. Whereas many systems will provide for binocular indi­vidual eye recording, the simultaneous individual eye recording is not as clinically revealing as with saccade
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evaluation. However, if this feature is available in the video systems, it can be of use, as usually a selection of either the right or the left eye can be used for analysis, thus allowing for optimization of the analysis if a poor recording was obtained for technical reasons for only one eye.
What is critical with this evaluation is the use of age-sensitive normative data. Changes in performance of pursuit tracking can be seen starting in the third or fourth decades of life (Paige, 1994). Figure 10–10 shows the effects of age and the frequency of target presenta­tion on the outcome parameter of pursuit velocity gain (discussed below). A full set of normative data for indi­vidual eye electrode recordings for all outcome param­eters as a function of age is reprinted in Table 10–4 for reference (Shepard & Telian, 1996). The data given in Table 10–4 are from subjects ranging in age from 20 to 80 years with 8 to 10 normal subjects in each decade. These data are for horizontal smooth pursuit testing. Statistical analysis showed significant differences at the p = 0.05 level criteria for age grouping shown in the table. For all the smooth pursuit frequencies, the excur­sion of the target was a 17.5-degree peak (movement to either side of center). These data were developed using the EOG technique. The authors are not aware of pub-
lished normative data as a function of age developed using video recordings. It is the use of age-sensitive normative data that improves the overall performance of smooth pursuit testing, not by increasing sensitivity but by increasing the specificity of the test.
Attention to the stimulus for smooth pursuit track­ing by fixed velocity (ramp) or varying acceleration/ velocity (sinusoidal) target protocols (see below) can maximize performance. The greater brightness of the target and the large size of the target are both features that improve performance (Hutton & Tegally, 2005). Even if the visual field is filled with the stimulus, it is the central portion of the fovea that dominates the response (van den Berg & Collewijin, 1986; Van Die & Collewijin, 1986).
For smooth pursuit tracking as well as for sac­cade testing, these are novel tasks for the patient. Even though the ocular motor tasks are used throughout an individual’s daily routines, they are not used in a focused and isolated manner as when testing. There­fore, to achieve maximum performance, the tasks may have to be repeated with coaching multiple times. It is important not to accept the first trial for saccades or pursuit tracking as adequate performance unless the first trial is either normal or explainable by age-related normative data.
figure 10–10. A modeling of smooth pursuit data acquired from normal volunteers as a function of age groupings (on the x-axis) and frequency of target move­ment (on the y-axis). The pursuit outcome parameter of velocity gain (see text for explanation) for the left eye is shown on the z-axis. The modeled data were developed using a negative exponential weighting function. From Practical Management of the Balance Disorder Patient by Shepard, N. T., and Telian, S. A. Copyright © 1996.
Parameters for Analysis
Here as with saccades, the specifics of the analysis are dependent on the manufacture of the equipment being used, unless the facility has the capability to develop its own computer sampling and analysis techniques. That said, there are three parameters more commonly seen with routine ENG/VNG analysis of smooth pur­suit. These usually assume the use of a sinusoidal pro­tocol (see discussion below). For this discussion, refer to Table 10–4 and Figure 10–11.
Velocity gain is indirectly a measure of how sinu­soidal the eye movement was in comparison to the tar­get. The gain value is calculated by a ratio of peak eye velocity divided by peak target velocity. Figure 10–11 presents a plot of the overall combined velocity gain without regard to movement of the eye leftward or rightward. Other examples of velocity gain displays showing the individual gain for eye movements in each direction are provided with the discussion of interpre­tation given below. If the eye tracked the target in a perfect manner, the gain would be expected to be 1. As saccadic disruptions in the eye movement occur, this introduces discontinuities that reduce the sinusoidal behavior of the eye movement and result in gain values less than unity. The mathematical process to determine