Near ultraviolet radiation elicits visual evoked potentials in children

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 379-383

  Brainard, George C ^a   Beacham, Sabrina ^a   Sanford, Britt E ^a   Hanifin, John P ^a   Streletz, Leopold ^a   Sliney, David ^b  

^a U S ARMY   (United States)

^b US Army Environmental Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Humans; Ultraviolet radiation; Vision; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0032891929     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(98)00022-4     Document Type: Article

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