I am not sure they mean much except in the right clinical context. Hence, if you have optic neuritis and your clinician wants to establish that (albeit on top of clinical evidence) fact and have a 'baseline' evaluation done, a VEP or visual evoked potential test might be ordered to establish delay in conduction in the affected optic nerve. Other evoked potential testing such as BAER, SSEP, PVEPs, MEPs, etc, have been used although I am not sure that they mean much if MRI/CSF/clinical data are unsupportive or equivocal. Therefore, as a stand-alone testing modality, only VEP probably scores above the rest and makes for sound scientific reasoning since the interpretation of other tests is not as straightforward or required.
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I am not sure they mean much except in the right clinical context. Hence, if you have optic neuritis and your clinician wants to establish that (albeit on top of clinical evidence) fact and have a 'baseline' evaluation done, a VEP or visual evoked potential test might be ordered to establish delay in conduction in the affected optic nerve. Other evoked potential testing such as BAER, SSEP, PVEPs, MEPs, etc, have been used although I am not sure that they mean much if MRI/CSF/clinical data are unsupportive or equivocal. Therefore, as a stand-alone testing modality, only VEP probably scores above the rest and makes for sound scientific reasoning since the interpretation of other tests is not as straightforward or required.
JR Avasarala