A question's explanation from UW, please help

[au3s]

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So there's a question UW Q Id 3738, about a guy who got broca's aphasia, lesion to the dominant frontal lobe. It says in the exaplation that pt's with injury to the lateral frontal lobe can develop conjugate gaze deviation to the opposite side of the lesion (contraversive frontal eye fields).

From my understanding, the if you have a lesion to the frontal eye field, isn't the eyes suppose to deviate ipsilaterally towards the side of the lesion. I don't know what they mean by contraversive frontal eye fields.

Thanks

 

[Apoplexy__]

That's wrong according to my understanding as well. Contraversive frontal eye fields are just the frontal lobe areas responsible for contralateral saccades (such as those in OKN, looking outside a window while in a car); a lesion to them prevents contralateral gaze deviation, causing ipsilateral deviation as you've stated.

A quick Google search finds multiple sources confirming what you and I are saying.

 

[au3s]

Thank you, I was just making sure. I'll write a feedback to uw staff to see why.