Non-provocative diagnostics of photosensitivity using visual evoked potentials

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 842-852

  Vermeulen, Joost ^a   Kalitzin, Stiliyan ^b   Parra, Jaime ^b   Dekker, Erwin ^b   Vossepoel, Albert ^e   da Silva, Fernando Lopes ^c,d  

^a Faculty of Applied Sciences   (Netherlands)

^b STICHTING EPILEPSIE INSTELLINGEN NEDERLAND SEIN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EEG; Epilepsy; Photosensitivity; Visual evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOSENSITIVE EPILEPSY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY, REFLEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION;

EID: 40649126096     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2007.11.177     Document Type: Article

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