====== Neuroanatomy of the Oculomotor System ======

==== Supranuclear Pathways ====
  * Frontal Eye Fields
    * Saccades originate here on the contralateral side of the direction of the saccade
    * Left Frontal eye field generates signal to right pons for horizontal saccades and 
  * Parietal Occipital Temporal Region generates pursuit movements and uses the same downstream pathways
====Nuclear Centers====
  * Horizontal eye movement- Pons
    * Oculomotor Nucleus
    * Abducens Nucleus
  * Vertical eye movements- Midbrain at the Thalamo-mesocenphalic junction  
====Internuclear Pathways====
  * PPRF- parapontine reticular formation 
    * near the 6th nerve nucleus
  * MLF- coordinates horizontal gaze nuclei 
    * Connects the 6th nerve nucleus to the 3rd nerve nucleus 
====Infranuclear Pathways====
  * Nerve axons to synapse then muscle contraction
==== Diagram of Horizontal Gaze Pathways ====
{{::horizontal-gaze-center.png|}}

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_5W83gwC-8|Gaze Centers Video Andrew Lee]]