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- Visible evoked potentials – VEP
Visible evoked potentials – VEP
VEP – it is a neurophysiological method whereby a light stimulus is used in order to examine the transmission from the retina to the visual cortex.
Indications:
- lesions of the optic nerve; the visual pathways;
- lesions at the level of chiasm; the visual cortex, cortical blindness
- differentiation of the vascular demyelinating lesions proven on a NMR,
- multiple sclerosis – 90% is a positive finding in clinical and subclinical lesions, they are used for diagnostic criteria;
- diabetic retinopathy, retrobulbar neuritis, etc.