{"title":"The significance of luminance on visual evoked potentials in diagnosis of MS.","authors":"H C Diener, W Koch, J Dichgans","doi":"10.1007/BF00343836","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In view of the fact that with psychophysical methods monocular luminance changes may increase the detection rate of pathological interocular-latency differences in MS patients, we studied the influence of stimulus luminance on the detection rate of MS using checkerboard visual evoked potentials. Decrements of stimulus luminance covering a range of three log units were unable to increase the detection rate of VEP. Regression coefficients of the luminance-latency functions did not differ in MS patients and normals. Contrary to the hypothesis tested, the diagnostic significance of VEP decreases with decreasing stimulus intensity.</p>","PeriodicalId":55482,"journal":{"name":"Archiv Fur Psychiatrie Und Nervenkrankheiten","volume":"231 2","pages":"149-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1982-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF00343836","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Archiv Fur Psychiatrie Und Nervenkrankheiten","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00343836","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In view of the fact that with psychophysical methods monocular luminance changes may increase the detection rate of pathological interocular-latency differences in MS patients, we studied the influence of stimulus luminance on the detection rate of MS using checkerboard visual evoked potentials. Decrements of stimulus luminance covering a range of three log units were unable to increase the detection rate of VEP. Regression coefficients of the luminance-latency functions did not differ in MS patients and normals. Contrary to the hypothesis tested, the diagnostic significance of VEP decreases with decreasing stimulus intensity.