Affiliated Faculty

David Zee

Professor, Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Address:
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Path 2-210
Baltimore, MD 21287

Phone: (410) 955-3319
Fax: (410) 614-1746
E-mail: dzee@jhu.edu
Website: http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/profiles/ZeeBio.html

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Research Interest Statement

Ocular motor control
Vestibular physiology
Cerebellar control of eye movements
Motor learning

Current Projects

Studies of translational and rotational vestibuloocular reflexes in humans
and experimental models of cerebellar dysfunction

Control of eye alignment: studies in humans with vertical strabismus and
experimental models of vertical strabismus.

Publications

Ramat, S., Leigh, R.J., Zee, D.S., Optican, L.M., Saccadic oscillations may be caused by coupling of brainstem excitatory and inhibitory burst neurons, Exp Brain Res, 160: 89-106, 2005.

Ramat, S., Straumann, D. and Zee, D.S., The interaural translational VOR: suppression, enhancement and cognitive control, J Neurophysiol, 94, 2391-2402, 2005.

Walker, M., and Zee, D.S., Cerebellar disease alters the axis of the high-acceleration vestibulo-ocular reflex, J. Neurophysiol, 94: 3417-3529, 2005.

Tian, J., Zee, D.S., Walker, M., Eye-position dependence of torsional velocity during step-ramp pursuit and transient yaw rotation in humans, Exp Brain Res, published online, Nov 24, 2005.

Ying, S. and Zee, D.S., Phoria adaptation after sustained symmetrical convergence: influence of saccades, Exp Brain Res, published online, Nov 24, 2005.

Presentations

Ramasamy Udayar Oration in Neuroscience, Ramachandra Medical College,
Chennai, India, Jan, 2005. "Control of Eye Movements by the Cerebellum"
Alfred Kestenbaum Lecture, University of Wurtzberg, Germany, November, 2005.
"Mechanisms of Congenital Nystagmus"