accessory oculomotor nuclei

{{Not to be confused with||text=the Edinger–Westphal nucleus (also known as the accessory oculomotor nucleus)}}

The accessory oculomotor nuclei are a group of nuclei situated in the rostral mesencephalon (midbrain) near its junction with the diencephalon, and consist of:{{Cite book |last=Kiernan |first=John A. |title=Barr's The Human Nervous System: An Anatomical Viewpoint |last2=Rajakumar |first2=Nagalingam |date= |publisher=Wolters Kluwer Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4511-7327-7 |edition=10th |location=Philadelphia |pages=156}}

• Interstitial nucleus of Cajal
• Rostral interstitial nucleus of medial longitudinal fasciculus
• Nucleus of Darkschewitsch
• Nucleus of the posterior commissure

These nuclei are involved in vertical and rotatory gaze (physiology), and smooth pursuit. They receive afferents from the visual association area; they project efferents through the medial longitudinal fasciculus to the nuclei of cranial nerves controlling extrinsic eye muscles.{{Cite book |last=Patestas |first=Maria A. |title=A Textbook of Neuroanatomy |last2=Gartner |first2=Leslie P. |date= |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-118-67746-9 |edition=2nd |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |pages=241}}