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Barbiturates and Eye Vergence

Nature volume 191, pages 833–834 (1961)Cite this article

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IT has been demonstrated1 that barbiturates influence conjugate eye movements selectively in that they abolish the smooth tracking movements while leaving the saccadic movements intact. Disjunctive eye movements have time characteristics akin to the tracking movements ; some effect of barbiturates on convergence has been mentioned2.

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  1. GERALD WESTHEIMER

    Present address: School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, 4, California

  2. CYRIL RASHBASS: On leave from the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.

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WESTHEIMER, G., RASHBASS, C. Barbiturates and Eye Vergence. Nature 191, 833–834 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/191833a0

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