This scheme, easy to remember for the horizontal VOR (eg, contralateral abducens nucleus neurons and ipsilateral medial rectus motoneurons), is also preserved for vertically acting muscles (see ...

The specific area that this cranial nerve comes from is called the abducens nucleus. It then: A small branch of the abducens nerve also connects to the contralateral medial rectus muscle.

This is accomplished by the paramedian pontine reticular formation, a group of inhibitory cells on each side of the brain that lies just anterior to the abducens at the sixth nucleus; signals from ...

One-sided horizontal gaze palsy is the result of a lesion of the ipsilateral PPRF or the ipsilateral abducens nucleus. 2 Destructive lesions of PPRF, such as infarction and haemorrhage ...