Sensory evoked potentials in clinical disorders of the nervous system.
Sensory evoked potentials in clinical disorders of the nervous system.
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神经系统临床疾病中的感觉诱发电位。
DOI:
10.1146/annurev.ne.01.030178.000535
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发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
13.9
通讯作者:
A. Starr
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作者:
A. Starr
Ann. Rev, Neurosci. 1978. 13103-27 Copyright (C3 1978 by Annual Review; Inc. All rightr reserved SENSORY EVOKED 011505 POTENTIALS IN CLINICAL DISORDERS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM A. Starr Department of Neurology, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California 92668 INTRODUCTION The diagnostic tools presently used by clinicians in the field of neuroscience provide useful information about the structure of the nervous system, but fall short with respect to providing insights into function. For this, the clinician must still rely on history, physical examination, and the patient’s own description of the experience of his disorder. The search for relatively noninvasive, simple tests of brain function has stimulated the recent development of sensory evoked potentials recorded from the scalp as low-risk, clinically applicable procedures capable of providing new and objective information about a variety of nervous system functions. In this review I summarize the various applications of auditory, visual, and somatosensory evoked potentials to the study of clinical neurological disorders in man, beginning with a brief description of the stimuli employed, normal patterns of evoked potentials, stimulus and subject variables that influence these potentials, and their probable neural generators. Clinical applications are analyzed with reference to each sensory system rather than according to disease states. Table 1 contains a listing of the various types of auditory, visual, and somatosensory evoked potentials based on their presumed sites of origin from along the sensory pathway. The evoked potential wave forms are included in the figures and the technical details of their recording are in Table 2. Sensory evoked potentials were among the earliest measures used to study the functions of the brain (Lindsley 1969, Davis 1976, Bergamini & Bergamasco 1967). While techniques for quantifying intracellular and single neuronal activity now predominate in the study of other animals, interest in evoked potentials persists particularly for the analysis of human brain functions. Moreover, the development 103 0147-006X/78/0325-0l03$01.00