| Author/Editor | Meh, D | |
| Title | Elektrofiziološko in psihofizično ocenjevanje somatosenzoričnega in avtonomnega živčnega sistema | |
| Type | monografija | |
| Place | Ljubljana | |
| Publisher | Medicinska fakulteta | |
| Publication year | 1994 | |
| Volume | str. 122 | |
| Language | slo | |
| Abstract | Backgrounds: Somatosensory and autonomic nervous system was electro-and psychophysiologically evaluated in four groups of individuals. In healthy volunteers vibration sensitivity was evaluated. In patients with isolated small nerve fibre neuropathy thermal specific and thermal pain sensitivity and autonomic nerve fibre function were assessed. Diabetic's and healthy cihldren's nerve functions were correlated, different factors influence and subclinical nerve involvement was searched for. Peripheral nerve and central nervous system function in multiple sclerosis patients was investigated. Methods: Patients underwent clinical neurological examination. Motor conduction velocities, distal motor latencies and compound muscle action potential amplitudes of the median, ulnar and peroneal nerves were studied. Sensory conduction velocities and amplitudes of the sensory nerve action potentials of the median, ulnar, sural and medial plantar nerves were measured. Thermal specific, thermal pain and vibration sensitivities were assessed at different body parts. Autonomic nerve functions evaluation included the measurement of the sympathetic skin response latency and amplitude, R-R interval variation and heart rate variation. Brain stem, visual, somatosensory and motor evoked potentials were evaluated. Results: In the healthy volunteers vibration sensitivity of different body parts differ significantly, vibration sensitivity of women and men as well as of the right and left body site did not differ; right-left differences were not correlated to age. Vibration perception thresholds were ind ependent of body lenght. However, vibration sensitivity was found to be age dependent. In the vollunteers under the age of 60 the correlation was linear, in the elder the thresholds determined scattered considerably. Reproducibility of results was good. Cold lowered and warmth raised determined thresholds. Diazepam affects vibration perception.(trunc.) | |
| Descriptors | MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS DIABETES MELLITUS, INSULIN-DEPENDENT ELECTROMYOGRAPHY EVOKED POTENTIALS VIBRATION NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION TEMPERATURE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM |