Abstract
We studied the rare case of a patient presenting with vestibulo-ocular dysfunction and clinical vestibular symptoms after right temporo-parietal cortex infarction. The vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) was elicited in the dark, by sinusoidal (0.02; 0.05 and 0.1 Hz) and by step velocity rotation (100°/s 2) in clockwise and counterclockwise directions. Horizontal and vertical eye movements were recorded by DC electro-oculography (EOG). When compared to a control group of 8 healthy subjects, this patient presented VOR asymmetry with (1) a significant VOR velocity bias toward the lesioned side revealed as a vestibulo-ocular offset that occurred only under dynamic conditions (2) a significant reduction of the VOR time constant when rotation was directed to the lesioned side. VOR gain was normal. We suggest that the parieto-temporal cortex is implicated in the regulation of vestibulo-ocular symmetry in man. This cortical processing of vestibular integration might involve a multidimensional velocity storage integrator that subserves the maintenance of spatial coordinates along the spatial vertical axis.
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