[Bimodal long-latency evoked potentials in normal newborns with different gestational ages and in leukoencephalopathy].

Bimodal visual somatosensory long-latent evoked potentials (LEP) and automatic analysis were employed to examine 110 healthy neonates of different gestation age. The data were obtained about maturation of that type of evoked bioelectric activity of the brain. Nonspecific changes in LEP revealed in 34 neonates with impairment of the white matter of the cerebral hemispheres pointed to the gravity of the pathological process, corresponded with the intensity of brain echogram abnormalities and disease outcomes. LEP were shown to be labile in premature neonates suffering from leukoencephalopathy.