1988
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.152.5.679
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Visual Evoked Potentials in Elderly Patients with Primary or Multi-Infarct Dementia

Abstract: Flash and pattern-reversal visual evoked potentials (VEP) were recorded in 35 elderly patients with dementia, and 19 controls of equivalent age. Dementia produced a slowing of the major positive (P2) component of the flash VEP but did not affect the latency of the flash P1 component or the P100 pattern-reversal component. This unusual type of abnormality was found in both primary and multi-infarct types of dementia, and has previously been found in primary presenile dementia. The results show that the VEP can … Show more

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“…Similar findings have been noted by Wright and Furlong [19] in their VEP study of elderly AD and multi infarct dementia patients. Thus, elderly sub jects in whom pattern-reversal testing is not practical, may be tested using a flash stimulus, with information obtained comparable to the results from the combined pattern-reversal and flash stimuli.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
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“…Similar findings have been noted by Wright and Furlong [19] in their VEP study of elderly AD and multi infarct dementia patients. Thus, elderly sub jects in whom pattern-reversal testing is not practical, may be tested using a flash stimulus, with information obtained comparable to the results from the combined pattern-reversal and flash stimuli.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 90%
“…The latency difference between the flash-VEP P2 and the pattern-reversal VEP P I00 is thus consistently increased in AD in these studies, this effect being considered to reflect pathological involvement of the parastriate visual association cortex, with relative sparing of the primary visual (striate) cortex in AD; positron emission tomographic studies [17] and autopsy [18] pathological analysis in AD support this view. A more recent VEP study in dementia indicates that the flash-VEP PI component latency, like the patternreversal P I00, is generally unchanged in de mentia and that the Dash-VEP A(P2-P1) la tency difference is a reliable evoked potential marker of dementia [19], Published studies of the flash-VEP in demented PD patients are lacking.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Nachdem bezüglich Signifkanz der Mittelwerhinterschiede bzw. Sensitivität und Spezifität keine wesentlichen Unterschiede gefunden wurden, wählten wir die Ergebnisse der lateralen (01 -C3) Ableitung für die Darstellung in der vorliegenden Arbeit aus, um die Vergleichbarkeit mit der Mehrzahl der Voruntersuchungen (10,11,15,20,21,22,23) Bestimmung der Srn.~itivitäf und SprriJilüt: Als ,,Blitz-positiv" wurden solche Personen definiert, deren Latenzwertc den Mittelwert +2,5 Standardabweichungen ihres .4lterserwartungswertes überschritten. "Blitz-Positiv" in der Kombination waren Pcrsoncn, die in mindestens einem der Parameter Blitz-P2, N3, P3 Muster- (1 8,20, 1 1, 15,8).…”
Section: Analyseunclassified
“…Weitere Untersuchungen zu Blitz-VEP bei Patienten mit M. Parkinson liegen unseres Wissens nicht vor. Eine Vergleichsstudie an Patienten mit vaskulär bedingter Demenz und Demcnzen vom Alzheimertyp mit Beginn im Senium(23) weist ebenfalls auf eine geringe Spezifität der Blitz-P2-Latenzverlängemng für die Differentialdiagnose der Alzheimerschen Krankheit hin. In dieser Untersuchung fanden sich etwa gleich große Anteile an ,,Blitz-positiven" Patienten für Demenzen vom Alzheimertyp mit Beginn im Senium (64%) und vaskulär bedingte Demenzen (80%).…”
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“…Despite the wealth of studies on the VEPs in PD, those in MCI are very rare. 28 Less attention has been paid to the effect of the dementing process on the VEPs in PD and MCI. The aim of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the VEPs and dementia in PD as compared with MCI.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%