Mathematical Modelling in Motor Neuroscience: State of the Art and Translation to the Clinic, Gaze Orienting Mechanisms and Disease. Progress in Brain Research Volume 249

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Section I -DIDACTIC: Modeling 1. Sequential Bayesian updating as a model for human perception Stefan Glasauer 2. Maps and sensorimotor transformations for eye-head gaze shifts: Role of the midbrain superior colliculus A. John van Opstal and Bahadir Kasap 3. Modeling gaze position-dependent opsoclonus Lance M. Optican, Janet C. Rucker, John-Ross Rizzo and Todd E. Hudson

Section II DIDACTIC: Translational 4. Eye position-dependent opsoclonus in mild traumatic brain injury John-Ross Rizzo, Todd H. Hudson, Alexandra J. Sequeira, Weiwei Dai, Yash Chaudhry, John Martone, David S. Zee, Lance M. Optican, Laura J. Balcer, Steven L. Galetta and Janet C. Rucker

Section III RESEARCH: Saccades 5. Saccades in Parkinson's disease: Hypometric, slow, and maladaptive Aasef G. Shaikh and Fatema F. Ghasia 6. Brainstem neural circuits for fixation and generation of saccadic eye movements Yoshikazu Shinoda, Mayu Takahashi and Yuriko Sugiuchi 7. Morphological and electrophysiological characteristics of the commissural system in the superior colliculi for control of eye movements Mayu Takahashi 8. Potassium channels in omnipause neurons �mit S Mayadali, Karoline Lienbacher, Michael Mustari, Michael Strupp and Anja KE Horn 9. The cerebellum improves the precision of antisaccades by a latency-duration trade-off Pietro Piu, Elena Pretegiani, Francesca Rosini, Valeria Serchi, Domenica Zaino, Tommaso Chiantini and Alessandra Rufa 10. Saccade variability in healthy subjects and cerebellar patients Eggert T and Straube A 11. Electrical stimulation in a spiking neural network model of monkey superior colliculus A. John van Opstal and Bahadir Kasap

Section IV RESEARCH: Adaptation 12. A neuronal process for adaptive control of primate saccadic system Yoshiko Kojima 13. A unified computational framework for visual attention dynamics Dario Zanca, Marco Gori and Alessandra Rufa 14. Improving the repeatability of two-rate model parameter estimations by using autoencoder networks Ozdemir MC, Eggert T and Straube A

Section V RESEARCH: Nystagmus 15. Rebound nystagmus, a window into the oculomotor integrator Jorge Otero-Millan, Ayse I. Colpak, Amir Kheradmand and David S. Zee 16. Central positional nystagmus: Characteristics and model-based explanations Jeong-Yoon Choi and Ji-Soo Kim 17. Modulation of acquired monocular pendular nystagmus in multiple sclerosis: A modeling approach Ileok Jung, Sung-Hee Kim, Hyo-Jung Kim, Jeong-Yoon Choi and Ji-Soo Kim 18. Fixation instability in amblyopia: Oculomotor disease biomarkers predictive of treatment effectiveness M. Scaramuzzi, J. Murray, J. Otero-Millan, Paolo Nucci, A.G. Shaikh and F.F. Ghasia

Section VI RESEARCH: Dystonia 19. What can kinematic studies tell us about the mechanisms of dystonia? Anna Sadnicka, Joseph Galea and Mark J. Edwards 20. Implications of asymmetric neural activity patterns in the basal ganglia outflow in the integrative neural network model for cervical dystonia Alexey Sedov, Ulia Semenova, Svetlana Usova, Alexey Tomskiy, J. Douglas Crawford, H.A. Jinnah and Aasef G. Shaikh 21. A motor control model of task-specific dystonia and its rehabilitation Anna Sadnicka and Jaume Rosset-Llobet 22. Tremor in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy: Proof of unifying network model for dystonia Nataliya Pyatka, Alexey Sedov, Benjamin L. Walter, H.A. Jinnah and Aasef G. Shaikh

Section VII RESEARCH: Parkinson's disease 23. Oculomotor effects of medical and surgical treatments of Parkinson's disease Salil Patel, James J. Fitzgerald and Chrystalina A. Antoniades 24. Vestibular heading perception in Parkinson's disease Sinem Balta Beylergil, Sarah Ozinga, Mark F. Walker, Cameron McIntyre and Aasef G. Shaikh 25. A new approach for estimation of spiketrain patterns in basal ganglia Vladislav Myrov, Alexey Sedov, Alexey Tomskiy, Ludmila Myrova and Elena Belova

Section VIII RESEARCH: Others 26. A model-based study of internuclear ophthalmoparesis and ocular-motor fatigue in multiple sclerosis Jonathan B. Jacobs, Clara Chisari, Margaret M. Skelly, Mark F. Walker and Alessandro Serra 27. Central positional vertigo: A clinical-imaging study Emiliano De Schutter, Zachariah O. Adham and Jorge C. Kattah 28. Eye-hand re-coordination: A pilot investigation of gaze and reach biofeedback in chronic stroke John-Ross Rizzo, Mahya Beheshti, Azadeh Shafieesabet, James Fung, Maryam Hosseini, Janet C. Rucker, Lawrence H. Snyder and Todd E. Hudson 29. Kinematics and the neurophysiological study of visually-guided eye movements Laurent Goffart 30. Deficient head motor control in functional dizziness: Experimental evidence of central sensory-motor dysfunction in persistent physical symptoms Nadine Lehnen, Lena Schr�der, Peter Henningsen, Stefan Glasauer and Cecilia Ramaioli