Retinal and cortical evoked responses to chromatic contrast stimuli. Specific losses in both eyes of patients with multiple sclerosis and unilateral optic neuritis

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 723-740

  Porciatti, Vittorio ^a,b   Sartucci, Ferdinando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromatic contrast; Multiple sclerosis; Optic neuritis; Pattern electroretinogram; Visually evoked potential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; COLORIMETRY; CONTRAST; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; LUMINANCE; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; OPTIC NEURITIS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RETINA; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0029967208     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.3.723     Document Type: Article

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