Step I Question about MLF

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HelpPleaseMD said:
If there is damage to the LEFT MLF then the person's can't look medial with his left eye?

BTW this is a great brain slice site.

http://isc.temple.edu/neuroanatomy/lab/atlas/ocn/

http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/rad-atlas/Headneck/1SkulRad.html (for radiology)
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Correct. Impaired adduction of the ipsilateral eye and nystagmus of the contralateral eye are characteristic.

MLF is in the pons. Internuclear ophthalmoplagia in young patients --> MS; in old patients --> stroke.
 
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