Researchers from SUNY State College of Optometry won the Award for Best Article at the 2016 Annual COVD Meeting for their work on visual evoked potential and human attention. The article,VEP and Human Attention: Translation from Laboratory to Clinic, summarizes recent studies that used the Diopsys® NOVA™ ERG and VEP Vision Testing System (Diopsys, Inc., Pine Brook, NJ) to record visual evoked potentials (VEP) in both visually-normal (VN) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) populations to assess attention.
The authors reviewed three recent studies which used VEP amplitude and latency measurements, as well as the attention-related alpha band responses, to provide objective, early information regarding the human attentional state in mTBI. “There is a long history of using objective techniques to assess human visual attention. We wanted to understand if VEP results could be used in a practice setting for that purpose,” said one of the lead researchers, Kenneth J. Ciuffreda, OD, PhD.
Based on these studies, the researchers concluded that the objective VEP results from the Diopsys® NOVA™ system “can be used clinically to rapidly and quantitatively detect and assess attention in the mTBI population.” They see the potential for this technique to become an important objective tool for eye care professionals to make attentional assessments of patients.
Click here to read the article.
These findings are very consistent with the research that Sieglinde Freed and I published in Brain Injury journal in 1996. Nice to see that 20 years later our research still holds strong! and more info has been found relevant. Click here to read our 1996 research paper
(Picture from PRweb release and Diopsys)
A pioneer in vision therapy and developmental optometry, Dr. Lynn Hellerstein is the founder of Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC. For more than 40 years, she has helped thousands of children and adults improve their vision and transform their lives — at home, in the classroom and on the sports field.
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