Author | Shagass, Charles. author |
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Title | Evoked Brain Potentials in Psychiatry [electronic resource] / by Charles Shagass |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1972 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8654-8 |
Descript | XI, 274 p. online resource |
1 Introduction -- Some Historical Background -- Development of the Writerโs Evoked-Response Research -- 2 Techniques -- Averaging: Concepts and Limitations -- General Recording Conditions -- Averaging Instruments -- Additional Instruments for Recording -- Stimulus Problems -- Quantification and Data Reduction -- 3 Characteristics of Event-Related Potentials -- Somatosensory Responses -- Auditory Responses -- Visual Responses -- Motor Potentials -- Long Latency Potentials -- Contingent Negative Variation and Other Steady Potential Shifts -- 4 Age, Sex, and Other Factors -- Somatosensory Responses and Age -- Somatosensory Responses and Sex -- Auditory Responses, Age, and Sex -- Visual Responses and Age -- Visual Responses and Sex -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Handedness -- Time of Day -- Respiratory and Cardiac Cycles -- Comment -- 5 Evoked Responses and Impaired Consciousness -- Sleep Stages -- Somatosensory Evoked Responses and Sleep -- Auditory Responses and Sleep -- Visual Responses and Sleep -- Comment -- Delirium -- Coma -- Comment -- 6 Attention and Related Phenomena -- Habituation -- Directed Attention -- Hypnosis and Suggestion -- Distraction -- Long-Latency Potentials -- Contingent Negative Variation (CNV) -- Comment -- 7 EEG-Evoked Response Relationships -- Between-Subjects Correlations -- Experimental Manipulation of the EEG -- Within-Subject Relationships -- EEG-Evoked Response Relationship as a Psychophysiological Variable -- 8 Intelligence and Personality -- Intelligence -- Questionnaire Tests of Personality -- Perceptual or Performance Tests of Personality -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Sedation Threshold -- Comment -- 9 Functional Psychiatric Disorders -- Evoked Responses to Unpaired Stimuli -- Variability of Evoked Responses in Time and Space -- Somatosensory Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Additional Studies of Somatosensory Recovery Functions -- Modified Somatosensory Recovery Function Procedure -- Auditory Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Visual Evoked-Response Recovery Functions -- Contingent Negative Variation -- Comment -- 10 Effects of Pharmacologic Agents -- Preanesthetics and Anesthetics -- Psychoactive Agents -- Thyroid Function -- Psychotogenic Agents -- Comment -- 11 Conclusion -- References