TY - JOUR
T1 - Short-latency sinusoidal wavelets to bright flashed stimuli
T2 - Studies with corneal lens, nasopharyngeal, retrobulbar and scalp recordings
AU - Sanarelli, Lucia
AU - Rossini, P. M.
AU - Rizzo, P.
AU - Stefano, E.
AU - Soldati, G.
AU - Pierelli, F.
AU - Morocutti, C.
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - Short-latency flash visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded in 30 healthy volunteers and 14 patients (7 with retrobulbar neuritis and 7 with retinitis pigmentosa). Simultaneous recordings were performed by corneal, scalp, nasopharyngeal and retrobulbar (5 patients) electrodes. In 18 out of 30 healthy controls a brief sequence of oscillating wavelets was recorded between 15 and 40 ms on the scalp sites behind the vertex. In retrobulbar neuritis (RBN) patients normal responses were recorded by lens, retrobulbar, nasopharyngeal and frontal scalp electrodes. On the contrary none of these patients displayed short-latency activity behind the Cz scalp position. In 5 out of the 7 patients with retinitis pigmentosa, corneal, nasopharyngeal and scalp electrodes failed to detect any reliable waveform time-locked to the flash onset. In the remaining 2, a small lens ERG was recorded, while all other electrodes recorded a sequence of low-volted wavelets initiating 30 ms after the stimulus onset. In these patients an occipital VEP reduced in amplitude and with prolonged latency was also recorded. It is concluded that in presence of a normal corneal ERG because of the presence of volume spread oscillating retinal activity, it is hard to define while part of the scalp recorded, short latency, oscillating potentials is generated in subcortical visual structures.
AB - Short-latency flash visual evoked potentials (VEPs) and electroretinograms (ERGs) were recorded in 30 healthy volunteers and 14 patients (7 with retrobulbar neuritis and 7 with retinitis pigmentosa). Simultaneous recordings were performed by corneal, scalp, nasopharyngeal and retrobulbar (5 patients) electrodes. In 18 out of 30 healthy controls a brief sequence of oscillating wavelets was recorded between 15 and 40 ms on the scalp sites behind the vertex. In retrobulbar neuritis (RBN) patients normal responses were recorded by lens, retrobulbar, nasopharyngeal and frontal scalp electrodes. On the contrary none of these patients displayed short-latency activity behind the Cz scalp position. In 5 out of the 7 patients with retinitis pigmentosa, corneal, nasopharyngeal and scalp electrodes failed to detect any reliable waveform time-locked to the flash onset. In the remaining 2, a small lens ERG was recorded, while all other electrodes recorded a sequence of low-volted wavelets initiating 30 ms after the stimulus onset. In these patients an occipital VEP reduced in amplitude and with prolonged latency was also recorded. It is concluded that in presence of a normal corneal ERG because of the presence of volume spread oscillating retinal activity, it is hard to define while part of the scalp recorded, short latency, oscillating potentials is generated in subcortical visual structures.
KW - Electroretinogram
KW - Retinitis pigmentosa
KW - Retrobulbar neuritis
KW - Short-latency oscillating wavelets
KW - Visual evoked potentials
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U2 - 10.1159/000116436
DO - 10.1159/000116436
M3 - Article
C2 - 2606135
AN - SCOPUS:0024842549
VL - 29
SP - 306
EP - 311
JO - European Neurology
JF - European Neurology
SN - 0014-3022
IS - 6
ER -