A Background and Perspective.- 1 Evoked brain potentials: how far have we come since 1875?.- 2 Measurement of evoked potentials.- 3 The auditory evoked potentials.- 4 Pattern evoked potentials: principles, methodology and phenomenology.- 5 Somatosensory and spinal evoked potentials.- B The State of the Art.- Section 1 Evoked Potential Stimulus, Measurement and Analysis.- 6 Design effects of video pattern generators on the YEP.- 7 Laser speckle cortical evoked responses (LASCERs).- 8 VEP triggered by saccadic eye movement and produced by an afterimage.- 9 A modified mean-addition process for EEG EP observation.- 10 Quantification of the auditory evoked brainstem potential using a correlation procedure.- 11 Comparative frequency analysis of single EEG-EP records.- 12 Measurement of EPs during CNV task.- 13 Event-related desynchronization in parallel to VEPs.- 14 How to measure evoked EEG potentials for topography.- Section 2a Visual Evoked Potentials: Normative Studies.- 15 The nature of pattern VEPs.- 16 Hypothesis concernmg the most probable sites of origin of the various components of the pattern EP.- 17 Cortical potentials evoked by pattern presentation in the foveal region.- 18 The effect of temporal stimulus parameters upon the VEP.- 19 Non-visual influence on clinically applied VEP.- 20 The human VEP and steady-state psychophysical light adaptation functions.- 21 High temporal frequency VEPs to luminance and pattern stimulation in the peripheral retina.- 22 A comparison of occipital potentials evoked by pattern onset, offset and reversal by movement.- 23 The effect of various stimulus parameters on the lateralization of the VEP.- 24 Binocular interactions in the VEP using a modified synoptophore.- Section 2b Visual Evoked Potentials: Clinical Applications.- 25 VEP in neuro-ophthalmic disease.- 26 The response to pattern reversal in amblyopia.- 27 VEP and intraocular pressure.- 28 Ten years’ experience of ERG/VEP/EEG studies on visual disorders in paediatrics.- 29 Electroretinogram, visual evoked cortical potential and the retinocortical activation time.- 30 VEPs from quadrantic field stimulation in the investigation of homonymous field defects.- 31 Abnormalities of the pattern VEP in patients with homonymous visual field defects.- Discussion.- Section 3a Auditory Evoked Potentials: Normative Studies.- 32 Derived cochlear and brainstem EPs.- 33 Early auditory EPs of the cat.- 34 Latencies of brain stem potentials and auditory thresholds.- 35 Inter-hemispheric and inter-aural differences in the human auditory EP.- 36 Time shift evoked potentials (TSEPs).- 37 Improvement of ERA by speech-specific stimulation and correction of amplitude and latency behavior.- 38 Comparison of auditory cortical EPs, brainstem EPs and postauricular myogenic potentials in normals and patients with known auditory defects.- Section 3b Auditory Evoked Potentials: Clinical Applications.- 39 Clinical electrocochleography: the significance of the summating potential in Ménièrs’s disorder.- 40 Auditory EPs in ageing and dementia.- 41 Extra-tympanic electrocochleography in clinical use.- 42 Brainstem auditory EPs in chronic degenerative central nervous system disorders.- 43 Monitoring brainstem function during posterior fossa surgery with brainstem auditory EPs.- 44 Detection and localization of brainstem lesions with auditory brainstem potentials.- Section 4a Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Normative Studies.- 45 Effects of specific spinal cord lesions on cortical somatosensory evoked potentials in the non-anaesthetized rabbit.- 46 Origin of the N11 wave of the cervical somatosensory evoked potential (CSEP) in man.- 47 Short and long latency cortical potentials following trigeminal nerve stimulation in man.- 48 The influence of trans- and percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) in man.- 49 Determination of the distribution of conduction velocities in peripheral nerve trunks.- Section 4b Somatosensory Evoked Potentials: Clinical Applications.- 50 Somatosensory evoked cortical potentials in peripheral nerve lesions.- 51 Somatosensory EPs in traction lesions of the brachial plexus.- 52 Somatosensory EPs in focal brain lesions.- 53 Clinical application of segmental somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP)- experience in patients with non-space occupying lesions.- 54 Comparative study of early and late somatosensory EPs in patients with hemiplegia and/or hemianaesthesia.- 55 The high amplitude somatosensory EP in progressive myoclonic epilepsy. Its relationship with the myoclonus-related cortical spike.- Section 5 Psychological Correlates of Evoked Potentials.- 56 Evoked potentials and signal detection: the influence of slow potentials.- 57 Temporal uncertainty and the recovery function of the auditory EP.- 58 Late positive component (LPC) during semantic information processing in Kanji and Kana words.- 59 Contingent negative variation (CNV) and extraversión in a psychiatric population.- 60 Slow cerebral potentials in a ‘go-no go’ avoidance situation: a study on special hospital patients.- Section 6 Drug and Metabolic Effects on Evoked Potentials.- 61 Cortical EP, blood flow and potassium changes in experimental ischaemia.- 62 Event-related potential changes with morphine in non-addicted humans.- 63 The use of event-related slow potentials of the brain as an objective method to study the effects of centrally acting drugs.- 64 The effect of sodium valproate on the photosensitive VEP.- 65 Correlations between VEPs and psychopathological findings in schizophrenic patients under treatment with various psycho- pharmacological drugs.- Section 7 Evoked Potentials in Multiple Sclerosis.- 66 The contribution of visual and somatosensory EPs and quantitative electro-oculography in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.- 67 Pattern reversal VEP after unilateral optic neuritis.- 68 VEPs during provoked visual impairment in multiple sclerosis.- 69 Brainstem auditory EPs on individuals with multiple sclerosis.- 70 Brainstem auditory EPs and blink reflex in quiescent multiple sclerosis.- 71 An approach to diagnosis of multiple sclerosis with cerebral EPs (visual, auditory, somatosensory).- Contributing Author Index.- Cited Author Index.