The research in my laboratory at The University of Texas Medical Branch is directed at sensorimotor coordination in the visual, vestibular and oculomotor systems. Specifically, we are attempting to determine how visual and vestibular signals are transformed into commands for eye movements. Studies are performed in the cortex and brainstem of trained, behaving primates employing neuro-physiological and neuroanatomical methods. In correlative studies we are studying the development of the primate visual and oculomotor systems.
B.A. and M.A., Southern Illinois University, 1970 and 1971 Ph.D., University of Washington, 1976 Associate Professor Department of Anatomy & Neurosciences Member, Marine Biomedical Institute Cell Biology Graduate Program
Mustari, M.J., Fuchs, A.F. and Wallman, J. Response properties of dorsolateral pontine units during smooth pursuit in the rhesus macaque. J. Neurophysiol., 60:664-686, 1988.
Mustari, M.J. and Fuchs, A.F. Response properties of single units in the Lateral Terminal Nucleus of the accessory optic system in the behaving primate. J. Neurophysiol., 61:1207-1220, 1989.
Mustari, M.J. and Fuchs, A.F. Do the pretectum and accessory optic system play different roles in optokinetic nystagmus? Symposium Chapter, "From Neuron to Action," Vienna, Austria, 1990.
Mustari, M.J. and Fuchs, A.F. discharge patterns of neurons in the pretectal nucleus of the optic tract (NOT) in the behaving primate. J. Neurophysiol., 64:77-90, 1990.
Fuchs, A.F. and Mustari, M.J. The optokinetic response in primates and its possible neuronal substrate. In: Reviews of Oculomotor Research, Vol. 5, Visual motion and its role in stabilization of the gaze. J. Wallman and F.A. Miles (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 343-369, 1993.
Mustari, M.J. et al. Anatomical Connections of the Primate Pretectal Nucleus of the Optic Tract (NOT). J. Comp. Neurol., 349:111-128, 1994.