- Docente: Lorenzo Bevacqua
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/48
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)
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from Oct 11, 2023 to Nov 22, 2023
Learning outcomes
Know and undertand recording techniques, electrode placement, wave form morphology and cursor placement, instrumentation.
Course contents
Evoked Potentials (EP): definition, basic concepts, instrumentation, acquisition methods and clinical applications:
- visual evoked potentials: pattern-reversal VEPs elicited by checkerboard, Flash VEPs elicited by a flash.
- electroretinogram: full-field electroretinography (ERG), pattern ERG (PERG)
- Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP or SSEP)
- Auditory evoked potentials (AEPs)
- Motor evoked Potentials
- Event-related potentials (ERPs)
- Laser evoked potentials (LEPs) and Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potentials (VEMPs)
Teaching methods
Lectures. Clinical case presentations
Assessment methods
Oral examination with questions on the main topics of the program
Office hours
See the website of Lorenzo Bevacqua