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Visual evoked cortical potentials (VECPs) to midperipheral stimulation of the visual field were elicited in age-matched groups of patients with unilateral chronic simple glaucoma or ocular hypertension and normal subjects. With a multimodal stimulus approach comprising transient and steady-state pattern reversal and transient onset-offset VECPs, 82.1% of the glaucoma group and 50.9% of the ocular hypertensives revealed significant abnormalities (p < 0.01) in one or more of the electrophysiological features measured, i.e., latency, phase, amplitude, and contrast threshold.
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Howe, J.W., Mitchell, K.W. Visual evoked cortical potential to paracentral retinal stimulation in chronic glaucoma, ocular hypertension, and an age-matched group of normals. Doc Ophthalmol 63, 37–44 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153010
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