Cortex
Volume 45, Issue 7 , Pages 900-903 , July 2009

Antisaccade performance in patients with multiple sclerosis

  • Joanne Fielding

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    • Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
    • Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Grattan St, Parkville, Victoria 3050, Australia.
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  • Trevor Kilpatrick

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Neuroscience, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    • Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Lynette Millist

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
    • ,
  • Owen White

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology, School of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
    • Department of Neurology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

Received 20 October 2008 ,Revised 16 February 2009 ,Accepted 27 February 2009.

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PII: S0010-9452(09)00092-6

doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.016

Cortex
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