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Although colour vision defects are quite common in optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis, there is a lack of general agreement as to the nature of the colour vision defect associated with demyelinating diseases. We investigated whether there is selective involvement of particular channels in demyelinating disease by recording visually evoked cortical potentials (VEPs) elicited by grating patterns that selectively stimulate the chromatic pathways. This paper contains preliminary results on a small number of patients who have essentially recovered from or have suffered no spatial vision loss. None of these patients showed S cone pathway deficits; all deficits involved pathways with L or M cone input.
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Schneck, M.E., Lee, E., Fortune, B., Crognale, M., Adams, A.J., Switkes, E.W. (1997). Spatio-chromatic VEPS in recovered optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis. In: Cavonius, C.R. (eds) Colour Vision Deficiencies XIII. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 59. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5408-6_18
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