Influence of diazepam on visual pattern-evoked potentials with due regard to nonstationary effects. Methodological problems.
The effects of diazepam on visual-evoked potentials (VEP) have been studied. The general effects - increase in latencies and decrease in amplitudes of the main peaks of the VEP - were differentiated by segmented averaging (as a measure for the possible lack of stationariness of the VEP) and by psychological testing (to study the influence of personality traits on medication effects).
D000328:Adult; D003975:Diazepam / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual / Q000187:drug effects*; D005556:Form Perception / Q000187:drug effects*; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000187:drug effects*; D010551:Personality / Q000187:drug effects; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000187:drug effects
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