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90131

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-11-28
pubmed:abstractText
The anatomical basis of palatal myoclonus and related rhythmic skeletal myoclonus is described. The most constant lesion is a special type of degeneration with hypertrophy of the olivary nucleus of the medulla oblongata, on the side opposite to the myoclonus when it is unilateral. This degeneration is usually secondary to a primary lesion located either in the ipsilateral (to the hypertrophied olive) central tegmental tract or in the contralateral dentate nucleus. To link these data, Trelles (1935, 1943) suggested a dentato-olivary pathway from the dentate nucleus to the contralateral inferior olive via the superior cerebellar peduncle and the central tegmental tract after crossing the midline. The existence of this pathway was demonstrated by Lapresle and Ben Hamida (1965-1971), first by showing a topistic relationship between dentate nucleus and contralateral inferior olive, then by delineating this pathway in the vicinity of the red nucleus at the crossing of the superior cerebellar peduncle and the central tegmental tract. The significance of these lesions with their ensuing symptoms is discussed. It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0340-5354
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
5
pubmed:volume
220
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
223-30
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1979
pubmed:articleTitle
Rhythmic palatal myoclonus and the dentato-olivary pathway.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article