BACKGROUND The correlation of oligoclonal bands (OCBs) and intrathecal IgG synthesis are not yet clear in multiple sclerosis (MS). PURPOSE In this study, we investigated the OCB situation and IgG index, cranial and cervical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and also compared visual evoked potentials (VEP) and somatosensorial evoked potentials (SEP) in order to better understand the OC...

PURPOSE The visual evoked potential (VEP) is a frequently used noninvasive measurement of visual function. However, high-amplitude variability has limited its potential for evaluating axonal damage in both laboratory and clinical research. This study was conducted to improve the reliability of VEP amplitude measurement in rats by using electroencephalogram (EEG)-based signal correction. METHO...

Introduction Studies comparing visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and BOLD signals have found a positive correlation between the VEP amplitude and the magnitude and extent of the BOLD signal [1, 2], but some VEP components are better related to the BOLD signal than others. The strongest spatial correlation have been found between the source location of the N1 peak* and the location of the BOLD sig...

A revised ISCEV standard for clinical electro-retinography has been published (1995). It is our concern that similar standards should be adopted for visual evoked potentials (VEP). The VEP is an electrophysiological signal that is recorded at the scalp, using standard EEG techniques. When used with other visual electrophysiological techniques the VEP can provide important diagnostic information...

We aimed to evaluate structure and functions of central nervous system (CNS) in children with glycogen storage disease (GSD) type 1a. Neurological examination, psychometric tests, electroencephalography (EEG), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), visual evoked potentials (VEP) and brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) were performed. The results were compared between patients with good and p...

Pattern reversal visual evoked potentials (VEPs) have been elicited in 16 female hyperthyroid patients before and after treatment and compared with those from a similar group of age and sex matched control subjects. No effect on latency was seen, and although larger amplitude values were noted in the thyrotoxic group these too were not significant. We would conclude that hyperthyroidism per se ...

We consider the problem of detecting visual evoked potentials (VEP's). A matched subspace lter is applied to the detection of the VEP and is demonstrated to perform better than a number of other evoked potential (EP) detectors. Unlike single-harmonic detectors, the MSF detector is suitable for detecting multi-harmonic VEP's. Moreover, the MSF is optimal in the uniformly most powerful (UMP) sens...

Between attacks, migraine patients are characterized by potentiation instead of habituation of stimulation-evoked cortical responses. It is debated whether this is due to increased or decreased cortical excitability. We have studied the changes in visual cortex excitability by recording pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (PR-VEP) after low- and high-frequency repetitive transcranial magn...

Behcet's disease, a multisystemic vascular inflammatory disorder of unknown origin, is relatively rare and central nervous system involvement is seen in 5% of affected individuals. This form of the disease, called as neurobehcet's disease (NB), can be misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS), a demyelinating disorder of central nervous system, so their differential diagnosis is important. In thi...