title: Event-related potentials in brain-injured patients with neuropsychological disorders: a review.
abstract: Investigations using event-related potentials (ERPs) in brain-injured patients affected by neuropsychological disorders of perception, attention, memory, and language, and other special syndromes such as blind-sight, neglect, prosopagnosia, and apraxia are reviewed. These electrophysiological techniques can be used to assess the integrity of specific brain processes during the performance of cognitive tasks in which behavioral impairments are observed. A special feature of ERP technique is that it reveals ongoing and covert processing which may not be fully assessed by measuring only overt behavioral performance.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Urbino.
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Viggiano
mesh_terms: D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests