This review covers selected articles dealing with the physiology of ey
e movements and their disorders which appeared in the world medical an
d scientific literature during 1993. The subject matter and the review
have been divided into two parts. Presented here is a review of paper
s concerned with infranuclear systems: peripheral nerves (oculomotor n
erve, trochlear nerve, abducens nerve, (multiple ocular motor palsies)
and eye muscle and orbit (ocular myasthenia gravis, dysthyroid opthal
mopathy, chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, miscellaneous d
iseases of eye muscle, and methodology). Part 2, dealing with supranuc
lear systems, will appear in a subsequent issue of this journal.