[The differential-diagnostic value of evoked potentials in depressive patients according to discriminant analysis findings].
The authors conducted a discriminant analysis of visual evoked potentials in depressive patients and in normals. The depressive syndrome was correctly diagnosed in 76--90% of the cases. The main role in the diagnosis of such cases belongs to interhemispheric correlational connections in the frontal brain areas. Between these connections there was an intercompensatory relationship. It was possible to demonstrate some traits of intrahemispheric connections in the left hemisphere of normals and in the right hemisphere of the depressed patients. Certain tendencies were marked in the distribution of patients according to the expressiveness of affective disorders.
D000328:Adult; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010775:Photic Stimulation
Differentsial'no-diagnosticheskoe znachenie vyzvannykh potentsialov u depressivnykh bol'nykh po dannym diskriminantnogo analiza