Clinical ERP
Physicians and neurologists will sometimes use a flashing visual checkerboard stimulus to test for any damage or trauma in the visual system. In a healthy person, this stimulus will elicit a strong response over the primary visual cortex located in the occipital lobe, in the back of the brain.
ERP component abnormalities in clinical research have been shown in neurological conditions such as:
- dementia
- Parkinson's disease
- multiple sclerosis
- head injuries
- stroke
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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