Altered cortical visual processing in individuals with a spreading photoparoxysmal EEG response

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 529-536

  Siniatchkin, Michael ^a   Moeller, Friederike ^a   Shepherd, Alex ^b   Siebner, Hartwig ^c   Stephani, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Habituation; Magnocellular pathway; Parvocellular pathway; Photoparoxysmal response; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34447623599     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05658.x     Document Type: Article

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