Age-related changes in the relationship between visual evoked potentials and visually evoked cerebral blood flow velocity responses

Functional Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 115-120

  Zaletel, Marjan ^a   Štrucl, Martin ^b   Pretnar Oblak, Janja ^a   Zvan, Bojana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Medical School of Ljubljana   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Neurovascular coupling; Transcranial Doppler; Visual contrast; Visual evoked potentials; Visually evoked cerebral blood flow velocity responses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COLOR VISION TEST; CONTRAST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 30644472884     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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