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A new method to measure the pattern reversal visual evoked response in infants and young children
Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
|January 1, 1986
Insights
A modified pattern reversal visual evoked response (VER) method effectively assesses visual function in infants and young children. This technique proved useful for evaluating young patients, including those with retinopathy of prematurity.
Area of Science:
- Ophthalmology
- Neuroscience
- Pediatrics
Background:
- Assessing visual function in infants and young children presents unique challenges.
- Conventional methods may be difficult to apply to this demographic.
- Visual evoked response (VER) is a key electrophysiological tool.
Abstract:
A modification was made of the conventional method of recording the pattern reversal visual evoked response (VER) to study the VER in infants and young children. Application of this modified method to 36 patients, the majority of them with retinopathy of prematurity, showed that this method is useful in the evaluation of the visual function in infants and young children, and also in a 12-year-old mentally retarded girl.