[Visual evoked potentials and functional asymmetry in children with with different degrees of intellectual...

Visual evoked potentials (VEP) to flash and patterned visual stimuli have been recorded from occipital and central brain regions in 7-8-year-old boys with normal intellect (20 cases), with mental retardation (15 cases) and with oligophrenia of a debile degree (27 cases). A significant elongation of late-component latency has been revealed in motor brain areas VEP in oligophrenia group compared to normal subjects. A negative correlation between P190 component latency of motor area VEP to patterned visual stimulus and general and non-verbal intellectual indices has been stated in full right-handed subjects with intellectual deficiency. Such a relation was absent in right-handed patients with left dominant eye.