OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic value of clinical assessment and motor evoked potentials for upper limb strength and functional recovery after acute stroke, and to establish the possible use of motor evoked potentials in rehabilitation. DESIGN A prospective study. SUBJECTS Fifty-two patients with hemiparesis were enrolled one month post-stroke; 38 patients concluded the study at 12 mo...

Attention was directed to the left or to the right of the fixation point by the lateral presentation of a target on which the subject had to perform an attention demanding task. A (task-irrelevant) grating displayed in the left visual field was the visual evoked potential (VEP) stimulus. Gratings modulated either in luminance or colour contrast at various temporal frequencies were used in order...

BACKGROUND Paraplegia is a devastating complication for patients undergoing repair of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms. A monitor to detect spinal cord ischemia is necessary if anesthesiologists are to intervene to protect the spinal cord during aortic aneurysm clamping. METHODS The medical records of 60 patients who underwent thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair with regional lumbar epid...

we compare performance of adaptive schemes which are based on radial-basis functions and kalman filters for fast extraction of auditory evoked potentials. moreover, we propose a new method based on evoked potential modeling in the kalman filter framework, which can improve the accuracy compared to the existing methods. simulation results show that adaptive schemes and the kalman method are not ...

We recorded motor-evoked potentials (MEPs) to transcranial magnetic stimulation from the right opponens pollicis (OP) muscle while participants observed an experimenter operating two types of pliers: pliers opened by the extension of the fingers and closed by their flexion (“normal pliers”) and pliers opened by the flexion of the fingers and closed by their extension (“reverse pliers”). In one ...

Abstract Background Motor adaptation relies on error-based learning for accurate movements in changing environments. However, the neurophysiological mechanisms driving individual differences performance are unclear. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)-evoked potential can provide a direct measure of cortical excitability. Objective To investigate excitability as predictor motor and robot-me...

background and objective: vep is a powerful method to study visual system via evaluating evoked potentials. technologic and instrumental restrictions may be the reason of having studies on optical modulation and induction such as color, spatial frequency and contrast. developments of computer software and hardware may lead to an increase in the flexibility of pattern designs. material and meth...

introduction: demyelination is one of the main causes of neurological disability. it is the end product of numerous pathological processes, multiple sclerosis (ms) being the most common cause. more than 70% of the ms patients suffer from optic disturbances. this disease commonly affects the optic pathway, particularly the optic nerves and chiasm. several attempts have been made to produce a sui...