Functional Neuroscience

Section I. Evoked-potentials updates and advances in signal analysis . Visual evoked potentials: recent advances. Auditory evoked potentials: clinical applications and future trends. Clinical utility of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs): present debates and future trends. Electrophysiological assessment of retinal dopaminergic deficiency. Transcranial magnetic stimulation: a tool for mapping the central nervous system. Event-related potentials (ERPs) as a measure of complex cognitive function. Clinical utility of evoked potentials. The clinical utility of event-related potentials to a short-term memory task. Clinical utility of evoked potentials in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Stimulus-related evoked potentials: from basic science to clinical neuropharmacology. Evoked magnetic fields. Functional brain mapping using a MRI-linked whole head magnetoencephalography (MEG) system. New concepts of brain source imaging and localization. Section II. Visual evoked potentials . Electrophysiology of retina and optic nerve: effects of changes in serum glucose and of exogenous adenosine in vitro. Altitudinal visual stimuli and the cruciform model of evoked potentials. Acetylcholine and the visual evoked potential. The i-wave: bridging flash and pattern electroretinography. Optic neuritis: swelling and atrophy. ERPS reflecting parallel and serial processing of colour arrays. Section III. Somatosensory evoked potentials . Locating the cortical sources of somatosensory evoked responses by integration of EEG and MEG. N30 wave of somatosensory evoked potentials in Parkinson's disease: a pharmacological approach. Median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials in cervical syringomyelia: pre- and postoperative electro-clinical correlations. SEF-MEG localization of somatosensory cortex as a method for presurgical assessment of functional brain area. Functional organization of the primary sensory cortex in humans: a neuromagnetic study. A novel sensory evoked potential for selective monitoring of the ventral spinal cord: from bench to bedside. CO 2 -laser and electric somatosensory evoked potentials in Friedreich's ataxia. Section IV. Event-related and cognitive evoked potentials . Cerebral function deficit in cardiac surgical patients investigated with P300 and neuropsychological tests. Dual task performance: effects of increasing difficulty on auditory ERPs and RTs. An electrophysiological dichotic syllable test: normative data for a right-handed population. Multichannel magnetoencephalographical recordings: separation of cortical responses to different chemical stimulation in man. Effects of attention on visual ERPS in children with specific learning disability. The use of P300 as a mental chronometer in closed head injury patients. Section V. Motor-evoked potentials . Motor cortex mapping with combined MEG and magnetic stimulation.