Visual evoked potentials change as heart rate and carotid pressure change.
Visual evoked potentials change as heart rate and carotid pressure change.
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视觉诱发电位随着心率和颈动脉压力的变化而变化。
作者:
Barbara B. Walker;Curt A. Sandman
The relationship between cardiovascular activity and the brain was explored by recording visual evoked potentials from the occipital regions of the scalp during systolic and diastolic pressure (Experiment I) and during fast and slow heartbeats at systolic and diastolic pressure (Experiment II). Visual evoked potentials changed significantly as heart rate and carotid pressure fluctuated normally, and these changes were markedly different in the right and left cerebral hemispheres. Evoked potentials recorded from the right hemisphere during various cardiac events differed significantly, whereas those recorded from the left did not. In both experiments, differences in the right hemisphere were due primarily to the PI component, which was larger at diastolic than at systolic pressure. The present findings are consistent with formulations from behavioral studies suggesting that baroreceptor activity can influence sensory intake, and suggest that hemispheric specialization may play an important role in the relationship between cardiac events, the brain and behavior. DESCRIPTORS: Carotid pressure. Evoked potentials. Heart rate, Baroreceptors. The early conception that sensory impulses are simply relayed from receptor to cortex was shaken when Granit and Kaada (1952) discovered that the central nervous systetn could control afferent fibers from muscle spindles. Since then, numerous studies have established that the brain can modulate its own sensory input by inhibiting or facilitating sensory transmission anywhere from the peripheral sense organs to the cortical level. In fact, it has been estimated that 10% of all afferent fibers contribute to centrifugal control mechanisms (Livingston, 1976), blurring the classical distinction between "sensory" and "motor" mechanisms. The brainstem reticular formation plays an important role in the centrifugal control of sensory processes. Both electrical stimulation and lesions (Livingston, 1959; Hernandez-Peon, 1961) of the reticuiar formation can facilitate or block interac