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Xu M, Li Y, Zhang C, Ma Y, Zhang L, Yang Y, Zhang Z, Meng T, He J, Wang H, Li S, Kranz GS, Zhao M, Chang J. Efficacy of scalp stimulation for multidomain cognitive impairment in patients with post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia: A network meta-analysis and meta-regression of moderators. J Evid Based Med 2023; 16:505-519. [PMID: 38100480 DOI: 10.1111/jebm.12568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Scalp stimulation has gained more traction for post-stroke cognitive impairment and dementia (PSCID); the interaction between stimulation targets and parameters influences the response to the stimulation. However, the most efficacious treatment for improving different domains of cognitive impairment remains unknown. OBJECTIVE We aimed to conduct a systematic review and network meta-analysis (NMA) to compare the efficacy of various scalp stimulation protocols used in PSCID treatment. METHODS Randomized controlled trials of scalp stimulation in patients with PSCID were searched in eight databases over the past 20 years. Standardized mean differences (SMDs) for global and subdomain cognitive scores were pooled in Bayesian NMA. Moderators were examined using meta-regression analysis. RESULTS A total of 90 trials, with 6199 patients, were included. Low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) over the unaffected dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) was highly suggested for alleviating global severity (SMD = 1.11, 95% CI (0.64, 1.57)). High-frequency rTMS over the left DLPFC was recommended for language use (1.85 (1.18, 2.52)), executive function (0.85 (0.36, 1.33)), orientation deficits (0.59 (0.07, 1.13)), and attention (0.85 (0.27, 1.43)). Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation over the affected DLPFC (2.03 (0.72, 3.34)) was recommended for treating memory impairment. Meta-regression analyses showed significant associations within attention, language and orientation. CONCLUSION Overall, different cognitive domains have different optimal scalp stimulation prescriptions, and activating the affected key brain regions and inhibiting the unaffected area is still the most effective treatment.
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- Minjie Xu
- Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China
- The State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong, China
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Comprehensive Center for Clinical Neurosciences and Mental Health, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Key Laboratory of Chinese Internal Medicine of Ministry of Education, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
- Institute for Brain Disorders, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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Kangas ES, Vuoriainen E, Lindeman S, Astikainen P. Auditory event-related potentials in separating patients with depressive disorders and non-depressed controls: A narrative review. Int J Psychophysiol 2022; 179:119-142. [PMID: 35839902 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2022.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2021] [Revised: 06/30/2022] [Accepted: 07/07/2022] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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This narrative review brings together the findings regarding the differences in the auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) between patients with depressive disorder and non-depressed control subjects. These studies' results can inform us of the possible alterations in sensory-cognitive processing in depressive disorders and the potential of using these ERPs in clinical applications. Auditory P3, mismatch negativity (MMN) and loudness dependence of auditory evoked potentials (LDAEP) were the subjects of the investigation. A search in PubMed yielded 84 studies. The findings of the reviewed studies were not highly consistent, but some patterns could be identified. For auditory P3b, the common findings were attenuated amplitude and prolonged latency among depressed patients. Regarding auditory MMN, especially the amplitude of duration deviance MMN was commonly attenuated, and the amplitude of frequency deviance MMN was increased in depressed patients. In LDAEP studies, generally, no differences between depressed patients and non-depressed controls were reported, although some group differences concerning specific depression subtypes were found. This review posits that future research should investigate whether certain stimulus conditions are particularly efficient at separating depressed and non-depressed participant groups. Future studies should contrast responses in different subpopulations of depressed patients, as well as different clinical groups (e.g., depressive disorder and anxiety disorder patients), to investigate the specificity of the auditory ERP alterations for depressive disorders.
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- Elina S Kangas
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland.
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- Human Information Processing Laboratory, Faculty of Social Sciences / Psychology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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- Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland; Central Finland Health Care District, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Mazzi C, Massironi G, Sanchez-Lopez J, De Togni L, Savazzi S. Face Recognition Deficits in a Patient With Alzheimer's Disease: Amnesia or Agnosia? The Importance of Electrophysiological Markers for Differential Diagnosis. Front Aging Neurosci 2021; 12:580609. [PMID: 33408626 PMCID: PMC7779478 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.580609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/30/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Face recognition deficits are frequently reported in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and often attributed to memory impairment. However, it has been hypothesized that failure in identifying familiar people could also be due to deficits in higher-level perceptual processes, since there is evidence showing a reduced inversion effect for faces but not for cars in AD. To address the involvement of these higher processes, we investigated event-related potential (ERP) neural correlates of faces in a patient with AD showing a face recognition deficit. Eight healthy participants were tested as a control group. Participants performed different tasks following the stimulus presentation. In experiment 1, they should indicate whether the stimulus was either a face or a house or a scrambled image. In experiments 2 and 3, they should discriminate between upright and inverted faces (in experiment 2, stimuli were faces with neutral or fearful expressions, while in experiment 3, stimuli were famous or unfamiliar faces). Electrophysiological results reveal that the typical face-specific modulation of the N170 component, which is thought to reflect the structural encoding of faces, was not present in patient MCG, despite being affected by the emotional content of the face implicitly processed by MCG. Conversely, the N400 component, which is thought to reflect the recruitment of the memory trace of the face identity, was found to be implicitly modulated in MCG. These results may identify a possible role for gnosic processes in face recognition deficits in AD and suggest the importance of adopting an integrated approach to the AD diagnosis while considering electrophysiological markers.
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- Chiara Mazzi
- Perception and Awareness (PandA) Lab, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.,Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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- Center for Cognitive Decline and Dementia, ULSS 9 Scaligera, Verona, Italy
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- Centro de Investigacion en Ciencias Cognitivas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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- Center for Cognitive Decline and Dementia, ULSS 9 Scaligera, Verona, Italy
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- Perception and Awareness (PandA) Lab, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.,Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences, University of Verona, Verona, Italy
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Hassan WA, Darweesh AEM, Abdel-Rahman AA, Ahmad HEK, Hassaan SH, Noaman MM, Fahmy IFG. P300 cognitive assessment in patients with first-episode psychosis: a prospective case-control study. MIDDLE EAST CURRENT PSYCHIATRY 2020. [DOI: 10.1186/s43045-020-00031-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background
Several studies using event-related potential (ERP) methods have reported a relationship between the cognitive dysfunction of patients with psychosis and P300 latency and amplitude. P300 follow-up studies in patients with schizophrenia receiving antipsychotic treatment revealed that the P300 amplitudes were increased while other studies showed limited changes in the P300 amplitude even after antipsychotics use.
Results
We found that at the first presentation, all patients’ groups have significantly lower amplitude and more prolonged latency of P300 than controls. All the first-episode psychosis patients showed a significant improvement of P300 amplitude mean scores after 1 year, but with no significant change in the P300 latency. There was an inverse correlation between the patients’ PANSS scores and their P300 latency and amplitude values.
Conclusion
P300 amplitude and latency might be of clinical value in the evaluation of cognitive functions in the first-episode psychosis patients. The abnormalities in P300 may be improved with continuous control of psychotic symptoms with psychotropic medications.
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Chen L, Zhou Y, Liu L, Zhang X, Zhang H, Liu S. Cortical event-related potentials in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. J Neurol Sci 2015; 359:88-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jns.2015.10.040] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Revised: 10/06/2015] [Accepted: 10/20/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Fix ST, Arruda JE, Andrasik F, Beach J, Groom K. Using visual evoked potentials for the early detection of amnestic mild cognitive impairment: a pilot investigation. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2015; 30:72-9. [PMID: 24737573 DOI: 10.1002/gps.4117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2013] [Revised: 03/06/2014] [Accepted: 03/07/2014] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Amnesic mild cognitive impairment (MCIa) is often characterized as an early stage of Alzheimer's dementia (AD). The latency of the P2, an electroencephalographic component of the flash visual evoked potential (FVEP), is significantly longer in those with AD or MCIa when compared with controls. The present investigation examined the diagnostic accuracy of several FVEP-P2 procedures in distinguishing people with MCIa and controls. METHODS The latency of the FVEP-P2 was measured in participants exposed to a single flash condition and five double flash conditions. The double flash conditions had different inter-stimulus intervals between the pair of strobe flashes. RESULTS Significant group differences were observed in the single flash and two of the double flash conditions. One of the double flash conditions (100 ms) displayed a higher predictive accuracy than the single flash condition, suggesting that this novel procedure may have more diagnostic potential. Participants with MCIa displayed similar P2 latencies across conditions, while controls exhibited a consistent pattern of P2 latency differences. These differences demonstrate that the double stimulation procedure resulted in a measurable refractory effect for controls but not for those with MCIa. CONCLUSIONS The pattern of P2 group differences suggests that those with MCIa have compromised cholinergic functioning that results in impaired visual processing. Results from the present investigation lend support to the theory that holds MCIa as an intermediate stage between normal healthy aging and the neuropathology present in AD. Measuring the FVEP-P2 during several double stimulation conditions could provide diagnostically useful information about the health of the cholinergic system.
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- Spencer T Fix
- Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA
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Vision function abnormalities in Alzheimer disease. Surv Ophthalmol 2014; 59:414-33. [DOI: 10.1016/j.survophthal.2013.10.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2012] [Revised: 09/28/2013] [Accepted: 10/01/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Howe AS, Bani-Fatemi A, De Luca V. The clinical utility of the auditory P300 latency subcomponent event-related potential in preclinical diagnosis of patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease. Brain Cogn 2014; 86:64-74. [PMID: 24565814 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2014.01.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2013] [Revised: 01/26/2014] [Accepted: 01/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The present meta-analysis investigated the clinical utility of the auditory P300 latency event-related potential in differentiating patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and unaffected controls. Effect size estimates were computed from mean P300 latency measurements at midline electrodes between patients and unaffected controls using the random effects restricted maximum likelihood model. The effects of clinical and ERP/EEG methological variables were assessed in a moderator analysis. P300 latency was found to be significantly prolonged in patients with AD (and MCI) compared to unaffected controls. Shortened P300 latencies were observed when comparing patients with MCI to patients with AD. Clinically relevant differences in P300 latency effect sizes were associated with mean age, interstimulus interval, stimulus difference, target frequency, reference electrode, and sampling rate. The meta-analytic findings provide robust statistical evidence for the use of the auditory P300 latency subcomponent as a biological marker of prodromal AD.
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- Aaron S Howe
- PharmacoEEG Study Group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada.
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- PharmacoEEG Study Group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada
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- PharmacoEEG Study Group, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto M5T 1R8, Canada
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Electrophysiological entropy in younger adults, older controls and older cognitively declined adults. Brain Res 2012; 1445:1-10. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.01.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2011] [Revised: 01/11/2012] [Accepted: 01/12/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Hogan M, Collins P, Keane M, Kilmartin L, Kaiser J, Kenney J, Lai R, Upton N. Electroencephalographic coherence, aging, and memory: distinct responses to background context and stimulus repetition in younger, older, and older declined groups. Exp Brain Res 2011; 212:241-55. [DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2726-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2011] [Accepted: 04/29/2011] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Effect of Memantine in Alzheimer's Disease Evaluated By Visual-Evoked Potentials to Pattern-Reversal, Motion-Onset, and Cognitive Stimuli. J Clin Neurophysiol 2010; 27:334-40. [DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0b013e3181f413cb] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Kubová Z, Kremlácek J, Valis M, Langrová J, Szanyi J, Vít F, Kuba M. Visual evoked potentials to pattern, motion and cognitive stimuli in Alzheimer's disease. Doc Ophthalmol 2010; 121:37-49. [PMID: 20524039 DOI: 10.1007/s10633-010-9230-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/16/2009] [Accepted: 03/22/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The aim of our study was to verify reported visual dysfunctions of patients with Alzheimer disease with the use of several variants of VEPs and visual ERPs and to learn whether these methods can be useful in diagnostics of AD. We tested 15 patients (6 women and 9 men, aged from 58 to 87) with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease (12-23 points of Mini Mental State Examination) and 15 age, gender and education level matched controls. The examination consisted of VEPs to pattern-reversal and motion-onset stimulation (to translational and radial movement) and of visual ERPs recorded during an odd-ball test. The subjects were instructed to signalize target stimuli by pressing of a button, which enabled to evaluate also the reaction time. While pattern-reversal VEPs were comparable in patients and controls, there were significantly smaller N2 peak amplitudes of motion-onset VEPs in patients with AD (in particular in radial moving stimuli outside the central 20 deg of the visual field), which suggests a dysfunction of the motion-processing (magnocellular) system or the dorsal cortical stream. ERPs, having significantly longer latencies in patients than in controls, distinguished well both groups. However, the individual AD diagnostics based on ERPs seems to be limited by rather high inter-individual variability of the ERP latencies. The ERPs might, however, be useful in disease progress and therapy effect estimation. Electrophysiological parameters did not correlate with neuropsychological ADAS cog test (Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale--cognitive part).
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- Z Kubová
- Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Simkova 870, 50038 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
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Lahera G, Pedrera A, Cabañes L, Fernandez-Lorente J, Simal P, Montes JM, Saiz-Ruiz J. P300 event-related potential in euthymic patients with bipolar disorder. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry 2009; 33:16-9. [PMID: 18977274 DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2008.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2008] [Revised: 09/09/2008] [Accepted: 09/16/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Auditory P300 event-related potential (ERP) and performance on Sustained Attention were evaluated in 24 euthymic bipolar patients and 38 healthy volunteers. There were no significant differences between groups, and performance in sustained attention had no significant influence in the P300 responses. P300 response might be driven by the presence of mood symptoms.
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- G Lahera
- Department of Psychiatry, Principe de Asturias University Hospital, University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain.
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Diagnostic Usefulness of Cognitive Auditory Event-Related P300 Subcomponents in Patients With Alzheimers Disease? J Clin Neurophysiol 2008; 25:147-52. [DOI: 10.1097/wnp.0b013e3181727c95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Muscoso EG, Costanzo E, Daniele O, Maugeri D, Natale E, Caravaglios G. Auditory event-related potentials in subcortical vascular cognitive impairment and in Alzheimer's disease. J Neural Transm (Vienna) 2006; 113:1779-86. [PMID: 17039300 DOI: 10.1007/s00702-006-0574-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2006] [Accepted: 08/28/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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BACKGROUND Few studies exist on ERPs and patients with subcortical vascular cognitive impairment (SVCI). This latter is a quite homogeneous subtype of vascular dementia whose cognitive profile is quite different from that of Alzheimer disease (AD). AIMS The present study aims at comparing the ERPs profile both in patients with SVCI and in patients with AD. SUBJECTS AND METHODS ERPs and psychometric tests were collected from 39 healthy elderly controls, 51 patients with SVCI and 43 patients with AD. Subjects mentally count high pitched target tones that were randomly intermixed with low pitched frequent tones. We measured ERPs latencies (N1, P2, N2 and P3), and interpeak latencies (N1-P3, N1-P2, N1-N2). RESULTS Grand averaged potentials in SVCI showed a significant increase of P3 latency. AD patients showed a prolongation of N1, P2, N2, P3 latencies. As far as interpeak latencies are concerned, SVCI patients showed a significant prolongation of N1-P3, AD patients had a significant increase of N1-N2, and N1-P3 intervals. When all patients were considered as a single group, correlation of neuropsychological tests scores showed a significant negative relationship between P300 latency and, respectively, Mini Mental Status Examination, auditive and visual span forward. In both groups, ERPs latency sensitivity, was low, whilst specificity values were quite high. CONCLUSIONS Our finding suggest that these two dementing diseases have different electrophysiologic features that may be related to their specific underlying pathogenetic mechanism; in particular, we hypothesise that, differently from AD, P300 latency prolongation characterizes the early stage of SVCI. So, this ERPs approach could be helpful to detect early alterations of the attentional/working-memory functions in patients with subcortical ischaemic vascular disease.
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- E G Muscoso
- Department of Senescent Urological and Neuro-urological Sciences, Cannizzaro Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
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Hogan MJ, Carolan L, Roche RAP, Dockree PM, Kaiser J, Bunting BP, Robertson IH, Lawlor BA. Electrophysiological and information processing variability predicts memory decrements associated with normal age-related cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Brain Res 2006; 1119:215-26. [PMID: 16997285 DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2006.08.075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2006] [Revised: 08/13/2006] [Accepted: 08/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Recent theoretical models of cognitive aging have implicated increased intra-individual variability as a critical marker of decline. The current study examined electrophysiological and information processing variability and memory performance in normal younger and older controls, and older adults with Alzheimer's disease (AD). It was hypothesized that higher levels of variability would be indicative of age-related and disease-related memory deficits. Results indicated both implicit and explicit memory deficits associated with AD. Consistent with previous research, behavioral speed and variability emerged as sensitive to age- and disease-related change. Amplitude variability of P3 event-related potentials was a unique component of electrophysiological activity and accounted for significant variance in reaction time (RT) mean and RT standard deviation, which in turn accounted for significant variance in memory function. Results are discussed in light of theoretical and applied issues in the field of cognitive aging.
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Gonzalez-Rosa JJ, Vazquez-Marrufo M, Vaquero E, Duque P, Borges M, Gamero MA, Gomez CM, Izquierdo G. Differential cognitive impairment for diverse forms of multiple sclerosis. BMC Neurosci 2006; 7:39. [PMID: 16712715 PMCID: PMC1481616 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-7-39] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2005] [Accepted: 05/19/2006] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Cognitive impairment is a common feature in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients and occurs in 60% of all cases. Unfortunately, neurological examination does not always agree with the neuropsychological evaluation in determining the cognitive profile of the patient. On the other hand, psychophysiological techniques such as event-related potentials (ERPs) can help in evaluating cognitive impairment in different pathologies. Behavioural responses and EEG signals were recorded during the experiment in three experimental groups: 1) a relapsing-remitting group (RRMS), 2) a benign multiple sclerosis group (BMS) and 3) a Control group. The paradigm employed was a spatial attention task with central cues (Posner experiment). The main aim was to observe the differences in the performance (behavioural variables) and in the latency and amplitude of the ERP components among these groups. RESULTS Our data indicate that both MS groups showed poorer task performance (longer reaction times and lower percentage of correct responses), a latency delay for the N1 and P300 component, and a different amplitude for the frontal N1. Moreover, the deficit in the BMS group, indexed by behavioural and pyschophysiological variables, was more pronounced compared to the RRMS group. CONCLUSION The present results suggest a cognitive impairment in the information processing in all of these patients. Comparing both pathological groups, cognitive impairment was more accentuated in the BMS group compared to the RMSS group. This suggests a silent deterioration of cognitive skills for the BMS that is not usually treated with pharmacological or neuropsychological therapy.
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- Javier J Gonzalez-Rosa
- Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Avda Dr Fedriani s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain
- Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Departament of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Camilo Jose Cela s/n, 41018 Seville, Spain
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- Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Departament of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Camilo Jose Cela s/n, 41018 Seville, Spain
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- Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Departament of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Camilo Jose Cela s/n, 41018 Seville, Spain
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- Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Avda Dr Fedriani s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain
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- Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Avda Dr Fedriani s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain
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- Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Avda Dr Fedriani s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain
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- Laboratory of Psychophysiology, Departament of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Camilo Jose Cela s/n, 41018 Seville, Spain
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- Multiple Sclerosis Unit, Virgen Macarena Hospital, Avda Dr Fedriani s/n, 41009 Seville, Spain
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Pearlstein RD, Whitten C, Haerich P. Assessing neurocognitive dysfunction in cranial radiotherapy: can cognitive event-related potentials help? Technol Cancer Res Treat 2006; 5:109-25. [PMID: 16551131 DOI: 10.1177/153303460600500205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Cognitive changes are common sequelae of cancer and cancer treatment, particularly in patients receiving cranial radiotherapy (RT). These effects are typically assessed by subjective clinical examination or using objective neuropsychological tests. Biologically based neurophysiological methods have been increasingly applied to the study of cognitive processing in neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders and as objective measures of cognitive status for patients with dementia. These methods detect the activation of neural circuits that directly mediate cognitive function in the human brain and include metabolic and electrophysiology based techniques. Neuroimaging procedures such as 18FDG PET and more recently fMRI, which detect metabolic activation associated with cognitive processing, provide excellent spatial resolution and can be directly correlated with neuroradiological findings associated with cranial RT neurotoxicity. Clinical electrophysiology procedures such as cognitive event-related potentials (ERP), which detect the neuronal electrical activity associated with cognitive processing, offer excellent temporal resolution at low cost. Cognitive ERP techniques are already being used to assess severity and progression of cognitive dysfunction in patients with vascular and degenerative dementias, but have been largely overlooked in studies of radiation-related cognitive impairments. We review these various electrophysiological methods in the context of their relevance to assessing cranial RT effects on cognitive function, and provide recommendations for a neurophysiological approach to supplement current neuropsychological tests for RT cognitive impairments. This technology is well suited for clinical assessment of neurocognitive sequelae of cancer and should provide new insights into the mechanism of RT-related cognitive dysfunction.
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- Robert D Pearlstein
- Department of Surgery/Neurosurgery, Duke University and Medical Center, Box 3388 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
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Kavcic V, Fernandez R, Logan D, Duffy CJ. Neurophysiological and perceptual correlates of navigational impairment in Alzheimer's disease. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 129:736-46. [PMID: 16461482 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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We assessed visual processing related to navigational impairment in Alzheimer's disease hypothesizing that visual motion evoked responses to optic flow simulating observer self-movement would be linked to navigational performance. Mild Alzheimer's disease and older adult control subjects underwent open-field navigational testing, visual motion perceptual threshold determination and a battery of neuropsychological examinations. We recorded visual motion evoked potentials (EPs) at occipital and parietal sites during centred visual fixation. Randomly moving or stationary pattern pre-stimuli preceded horizontal motion and radial optic flow stimuli to separate motion N200s from pattern onset responses. Radial optic flow evoked N200 responses comparable with those obtained with uniform horizontal motion, despite the variety of motion directions in radial optic flow. Alzheimer's disease patients showed smaller radial optic flow N200s than older adult subjects, and these were greatly diminished when preceded by stationary dots. Combining N200 amplitudes with optic flow perceptual thresholds and contrast sensitivities yielded a strong correlation with navigational impairment in Alzheimer's disease (R2 = 0.95). We conclude that navigational impairment in Alzheimer's disease is linked to a disorder of extrastriate visual cortical motion processing reflected in specific perceptual and neurophysiological measures.
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- Voyko Kavcic
- Department of Neurology, and the Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642-0673, USA
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Buziashvili YI, Aleksakhina YA, Ambat'ello SG, Matskeplishvili ST. Use of P300 Cognitive Evoked Potentials in the Diagnosis of Impairments of Higher Mental Functions after Cardiac Surgery in Conditions of Cardiopulmonary Bypass. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 36:115-8. [PMID: 16380824 DOI: 10.1007/s11055-005-0169-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2004] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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A total of 40 patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing aortocoronary shunting surgery in conditions of cardiopulmonary bypass were studied. Parameters of the P300 cognitive evoked potentials were studied before surgery and 7-9 days after surgery. Neurological and neuropsychological assessments were also performed. The most significant parameters of the P300 potential were found to be the latencies of the P3 and N2 components, increases in which showed positive correlations with the extent of the developing cognitive deficit. Evidence supporting the neuroprotective effects of Trasylol given during surgery was obtained. Patients given Trasylol showed less marked cognitive deficit and smaller changes in P300 parameters. Analysis of the P300 cognitive evoked potential can be recommended for detecting early cognitive dysfunction and assessing the efficacy of neuroprotective therapy in patients undergoing surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass.
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- Yu I Buziashvili
- A. N. Bakulev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow
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Gironell A, García-Sánchez C, Estévez-González A, Boltes A, Kulisevsky J. Usefulness of P300 in Subjective Memory Complaints. J Clin Neurophysiol 2005; 22:279-84. [PMID: 16093901 DOI: 10.1097/01.wnp.0000173559.60113.ab] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The existing studies about the utility of P300 latency for diagnostically classifying patients in preclinical stages of dementia are cross-sectional rather than longitudinal in design, and their results are inconclusive. The authors investigated the P300 value in a series of patients with subjective memory complaints using a prospective design. The study was performed in a consecutive series of 116 outpatients with subjective memory complaints as the predominant symptom. P300 (auditory oddball task) was performed immediately after the first clinical evaluation, and at 12 and 24 months. Final cognitive syndrome diagnosis (mean follow-up period, 27.7 months) was then made by a neurologist who was blinded to the neurophysiologic results. Diagnosis at the end of follow-up was 30 cases of normal cognition, 30 cases of mild cognitive impairment, 28 cases of dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT), five cases of vascular dementia, and one case of frontotemporal dementia; 22 patients were lost to follow-up. P300 latency was significantly higher for the DAT group (analysis of variance: P=0.023) throughout the study. The diagnostic value of P300 latency at baseline examination for DAT had a sensitivity of 52.9% and a specificity of 76.9%; the odds ratio was 3.75 (95% confidence interval, 1.23-11.41). Findings from the present study suggest that assessment of evoked related potentials may contribute to the early detection of DAT.
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- Alexandre Gironell
- Cognitive Disorders Section, Department of Neurology, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain.
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Olichney JM, Hillert DG. Clinical applications of cognitive event-related potentials in Alzheimer's disease. Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am 2004; 15:205-33. [PMID: 15029906 DOI: 10.1016/s1047-9651(03)00103-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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This article has reviewed several abnormalities in the cognitive ERPs of AD patients. These abnormalities are prominent from latencies of approximately 200 msec and later. In contrast, sensory-dependent evoked potentials, such as N100, are generally normal in AD. This finding is as one familiar with the neuropathology of AD would predict. Predilection sites in early AD include the medial temporal lobe, other limbic areas, and multimodal association cortices with sparing of primary sensory areas. Unimodal association cortex is involved in AD, but not as heavily as multimodal cortex. Particular advantages of studying a given ERP paradigm or component depend largely on the specific application or hypothesis being tested. A P300 paradigm can be useful in detecting a disorder of attention or in quantifying the effects of drugs that improve attention, such as the cholinesterase inhibitors. For the early diagnosis of AD or other memory disorders, a word-repetition paradigm with an explicit recognition task or one that fosters associative learning would be recommended. This article has discussed potential use of N400 in tracking disease progression. ERPs provide a flexible and powerful technique, with superb temporal resolution, which can be used as a probe into subtle "subclinical" abnormalities of cognitive processes. Despite being applied to AD for about 25 years since the early P300 studies, the full potential of ERPs in helping diagnose and treat AD patients has yet to be realized. In this era of rapidly evolving brain-imaging techniques, electrophysiologic data are important in advancing understanding of cognition. Brain-mapping techniques that can inform where and when key cognitive processes occur are finally emerging. A final example of potential clinical application of cognitive ERPs is in the development of rational combinational treatment of cognitive enhancing drugs. Along these lines, P300 investigations in epilepsy proved helpful in ranking the cognitive side effects of anticonvulsant drugs. Drug studies that use 2 x 2 combinational designs, which compare the effects of drug A, drug B, with A + B, are currently prohibitively expensive for full-scale clinical trials in AD. It is likely that precise ERP measures could hasten drug development in several ways. Smaller samples could be used, at lower cost, to test the cognitive effects of each specific drug combination. Optimal doses of combinational therapy perhaps could be identified by repeated within-subject ERP measures. Longitudinal changes in the ERP hold promise as a marker of individual responsivity to a particular agent, which could have diagnostic utility (eg, testing response to cholinergic or dopaminergic therapy). This horizon and many others remain wide open for well-planned explorations.
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- John M Olichney
- Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0662, USA.
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Gaetz M, Bernstein DM. The current status of electrophysiologic procedures for the assessment of mild traumatic brain injury. J Head Trauma Rehabil 2001; 16:386-405. [PMID: 11461660 DOI: 10.1097/00001199-200108000-00008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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DESIGN This review examines studies that used spontaneous electroencephalography (EEG), evoked potentials (EP), event-related potentials (ERP), and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to detect brain dysfunction in mild traumatic brain injured (MTBI) subjects. CONCLUSIONS The following conclusions are offered: (1) standard clinical EEG is not useful; however, newer analytical procedures may be proven valuable; (2) consistent with current theory of MTBI, cognitive ERPs seem to be more sensitive to injury than EPs; (3) development of an assessment battery that may include EEG, EPs, ERPs, and neuropsychologic testing is advocated.
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- M Gaetz
- Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Hollerbach S, May A, Kamath MV, Shine G, Upton AR, Tougas G. Objective assessment of cognitive factors involved in visceral perception by using event-related cerebral evoked responses to esophageal target stimulation in man. Dig Dis Sci 2001; 46:790-801. [PMID: 11330415 DOI: 10.1023/a:1010752417798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/09/2022]
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Evoked potential (EP) studies provide an objective measure of the neural pathways involved with perception of gastrointestinal stimulation. The effects of cognitive factors, such as anticipation or awareness, on EP responses are not known. We compared the EP response to esophageal electrical stimulation with the cortical activity associated with target detection and anticipation of the same stimulus. In 12 healthy men (26.8+/-6 years old), esophageal electrical stimulation (0.2 Hz, 0.2 msec, 15 mA) was applied, and the EP recorded using scalp electrodes. A computerized model of randomly applied target stimuli (1:5 ratio) was used to separately record the EP associated with stimulation and the event-related cognitive EP associated with a dual task-related or anticipated stimulation approach. A periodic electrical stimulus represented the nontarget stimulus and a second electrical impulse (oddball model) or an omitted stimulus (anticipatory model) the target stimulus. The event-related cognitive EP responses were also compared with standard and anticipatory auditory P300 evoked potentials. The esophageal and auditory oddball stimulus approach elicited event-related P300EP in all subjects. P300EP associated with electrical stimulation had a longer peak latency (P < 0.0001) and smaller amplitude than those obtained with auditory stimulation. Anticipatory evoked potentials could be obtained by electrical skipped stimulation in 8 of 12 subjects. These EP were similar to those obtained with omitted auditory target stimulation, although of significantly smaller amplitude than auditory standard P300EP (P < 0.001). In conclusion, the brain response associated with directed effortful processing of discriminate esophageal stimuli consists of a large event-related potential (P300EP). Anticipatory stimulation produces a similar event-related cortical response, which is associated with attention to and awareness of the actual stimulus. The P300EP to gastrointestinal stimuli may provide an objective and powerful electrophysiological tool for the assessment of the cognitive factors associated with visceral perception.
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- S Hollerbach
- Department of Medicine and Electronical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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OBJECTIVE In a non-randomized, uncontrolled pilot study, the authors investigated whether depressed patients were more likely to perceive the lighting in their environment as being dimmer than usual. METHOD 120 patients (46 males, 74 females) who presented for possible admission for depression at a psychiatric facility were administered a Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of disorders (DSM-IV) based questionnaire and underwent psychiatric evaluation. A question asking whether 'the lights in my surroundings seem dimmer than usual' was included in the 15-point question survey. Statistical analyses were performed to determine whether an affirmative response to this dimness question was correlated with the depth of depression (mild, moderate, severe) and also whether significant correlation was present between the percentage of patients answering yes to the dimness question versus the number of yes responses to the core symptoms of depression. RESULTS Two thirds of the patients categorized as severely depressed responded that their ambient environment appeared dimmer than usual compared to 21% of moderately and 14% of mildly depressed patients. This difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). The degree of depression as determined by the number of core questions answered affirmatively and the presence of this 'dimness' symptom were highly correlated (P=0.002, R=0.87). LIMITATIONS The specificity of the finding has not been tested in reference to non-affective psychiatric patient groups. CONCLUSION A patient's perception of the ambient light in the environment being dimmer than usual may be an important symptom of a major depressive disorder. Further replication and objective testing of visual function in depressed patients appears warranted.
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- T R Friberg
- Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, 203 Lothrop Street, #824, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Altmann P, Cunningham J, Marsh F, Dhanesha U, Ballard M, Thompson J. Camelford water incident. BMJ (CLINICAL RESEARCH ED.) 2000; 320:1536. [PMID: 10877574 PMCID: PMC1118115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Hollerbach S, Fitzpatrick D, Shine G, Kamath MV, Upton AR, Tougas G. Cognitive evoked potentials to anticipated oesophageal stimulus in humans: quantitative assessment of the cognitive aspects of visceral perception. Neurogastroenterol Motil 1999; 11:37-46. [PMID: 10087533 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2982.1999.00132.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Evoked potential studies provide an objective measure of the neural pathways involved with perception. The effects of cognitive factors, such as anticipation or awareness, on evoked potentials are not known. The aim was to compare the evoked potential response to oesophageal stimulation with the cortical activity associated with anticipation of the same stimulus. In 12 healthy men (23.5 +/- 4 years), oesophageal electrical stimulation (15 mA, 0.2 Hz, 0.2 msec) was applied, and the evoked potentials recorded using scalp electrodes. A computerized model of randomly skipped stimuli (4:1 ratio) was used to separately record the evoked potentials associated with stimulation and those associated with an anticipated stimulus. The electrical stimulus represented the nontarget stimulus and the skipped impulse the target (anticipatory) stimulus. This anticipatory evoked potential was also compared to auditory P300 evoked potentials. Reproducible evoked potentials and auditory P300 responses were elicited in all subjects. Anticipatory evoked potentials (peak latency 282.1 +/- 7.9 msec, amplitude 8.2 +/- 0.7 microV, P < 0.05 vs auditory P300 evoked potential) were obtained with the skipped stimulus. This anticipatory evoked potential was located frontocentrally, while the auditory P300 potential was located in the centro-parietal cortex. The anticipatory evoked potential associated with expectation of an oesophageal stimulus, although of similar latency to that of the auditory P300 evoked response, originates from a different cortical location. The recording of cognitive evoked potentials to an expected oesophageal stimulus depends on attention to, and awareness of, the actual stimulus. Anticipatory evoked potentials to GI stimuli may provide an objective electrophysiological tool for the assessment of the cognitive factors associated with visceral perception.
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- S Hollerbach
- Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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BACKGROUND Overall and left temporal scalp area reductions of P300 have been demonstrated in schizophrenia. P300 amplitude and topography in psychotic affective disorder, a crucial comparison in assessing the specificity of P300 abnormalities to schizophrenia, are not well studied. METHODS P300 was recorded from 35 schizophrenic, 20 psychotic manic, and 30 control subjects. All were right-handed men. RESULTS P300 was reduced in both psychotic groups relative to control subjects. Anteroposterior P300 topography differed between patient groups, with schizophrenic subjects showing posterior reduction and bipolar subjects showing anterior reduction. Schizophrenic subjects showed an abnormal asymmetry, with smaller P300 over the left temporal scalp site than the right. Both bipolar and control subjects showed a left greater than right asymmetry. CONCLUSIONS Widespread auditory P300 reductions were present in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder with psychosis, but subtle topographic differences were present in the two diseases. Although unequivocal knowledge of neural generators cannot be derived from topography alone, differences in topography imply different generator configurations. Based on previous studies, the posterior P300 reductions in schizophrenia may reflect abnormalities of a generator located in the left superior temporal gyrus. The frontal reductions in bipolar psychosis may reflect abnormalities in a hypothetical frontal generator, consonant with reports of altered frontal lobe function in mania.
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- D F Salisbury
- Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Tanaka F, Kachi T, Yamada T, Sobue G. Auditory and visual event-related potentials and flash visual evoked potentials in Alzheimer's disease: correlations with Mini-Mental State Examination and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices. J Neurol Sci 1998; 156:83-8. [PMID: 9559992 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-510x(98)00004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We investigated possible correlations among neurophysiological examinations [auditory and visual event-related potentials (A-ERPs, V-ERPs), and flash visual evoked potentials (F-VEPs)] and neuropsychological tests [Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) and Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (RCPM)] in 15 subjects with probable or possible Alzheimer's disease (AD) according to the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Association (NINCDS-ADRDA) criteria. The P300 latency of A-ERPs was correlated with the scores of MMSE but not with those of RCPM. The P300 latency of V-ERPs was more significantly correlated with the scores of RCPM than with those of MMSE. The P2 latency of F-VEPs was more significantly correlated with the scores of RCPM than with those of MMSE. The P2 latency of F-VEPs was not correlated with the P300 latency of A-ERPs but was correlated with the P300 latency of V-ERPs. The close relationship among V-ERPs, F-VEPs and RCPM suggests that these examinations at least partly reflect the functions of visual association areas in AD. Furthermore, discrepancy between P300 latency by A-ERPs and V-ERPs suggests that the mechanism responsible for P300 generation is not identical between these two stimulus modalities.
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- F Tanaka
- Department of Neurology, Chubu National Hospital, Obu, Aichi, Japan
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Electrophysiological evidence at a cellular level and in vivo macroelectrode recordings converge in indicating a degree of specificity of acetylcholine action in vision. Acetylcholine (ACh) function is also thought to play a significant role in memory, learning and other cognitive processes. In this respect, ACh action is suggested to serve in both sensory and cognitive processes. The pharmacological blocking of brain muscarinic transmission has been proposed as a model of geriatric memory impairment and Alzheimer's dementia. Visual electrophysiological testing is deemed of diagnostic specificity for this disease. ACh brain neurotransmission, however, mostly contributes to the modulation of nonspecific aspects of cognition, such as arousal or attention. Alzheimer's dementia results from complex neuron alterations [which also affect muscarinic receptors among other (sub)cellular structures] rather than simply reflecting ACh impoverishment. A substantial loss of retinal ganglion cells is documented in patients with Alzheimer's disease and is consistent with electrophysiological observations. However, it is unclear to what extent the dysfunction of the visual system observable in Alzheimer's dementia is qualitatively different from that occurring spontaneously during aging. The dissimilarities between the effect of acute muscarinic blocking (e.g. by scopolamine) and dementia outnumber the similarities. Accordingly, the conventional ACh agonist-antagonist model of dementia now appears questionable, and replacement treatment with compounds enhancing ACh function proved disappointing. It is suggested that (nonspecific) ACh action becomes function-specific, as determined by the architecture of local brain circuits in which it is involved.
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- L Nobili
- Department of Motor Sciences and Rehabilitation-Neurophysiopathology, University of Genoa, Italy
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Moore NC. Visual evoked responses in Alzheimer's disease: a review. CLINICAL EEG (ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY) 1997; 28:137-42. [PMID: 9241466 DOI: 10.1177/155005949702800304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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This review of the literature has shown that a delayed flash P2, in the presence of a normal flash P1 and pattern-reversal P100, can distinguish groups of Alzheimer's patients from groups who are healthy, psychiatrically ill, or suffering from other types of dementia. The VER's usefulness in the individual patient remains undetermined. With today's techniques, too many patients are misclassified. False negatives may result if Alzheimer's patients with visual symptoms are a distinct subgroup. Those with a normal flash VER may have cortical dysfunction outside the visual association areas. This would most likely be in the earliest stages of the disease before the atrophy becomes widespread. It may be that a VER test would only be valid in established disease. Future research should use adequate numbers of patients who are in a single category of mild, moderate or severe, so that the applicability of a VER test in the early stages of the disease can be determined. Strict diagnostic criteria such as the NINCDS-ADRDA guidelines should be used. Patients should be drug free, or at least not taking medications with anticholinergic properties. Flash VER should be obtained using a strobe light with eyes closed, and the pattern VER using a black and white television with a large pattern and high contrast.
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- N C Moore
- Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia, USA
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Swanwick GR, Rowan MJ, Coen RF, Lawlor BA, Coakley D. Measuring cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's disease. Br J Psychiatry 1997; 170:580. [PMID: 9330032 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.170.6.580a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Côté G, Lesage A, Chawky N, Loyer M. Clinical specificity of prison inmates with severe mental disorders. A case-control study. Br J Psychiatry 1997; 170:571-7. [PMID: 9330026 DOI: 10.1192/bjp.170.6.571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND We wished to determine whether prison inmates with severe mental disorders possess specific clinical characteristics compared with psychiatric in-patients suffering from similar problems. METHOD Under a case-control design, 69 male prison inmates suffering from a schizophrenic or major affective disorder were matched for age and diagnostic spectrum to 60 male psychiatric in-patients. Standardised interviews were used to diagnose psychiatric disorders according to DSM-III-R and social functioning criteria. Case-notes were reviewed to cull data regarding social life, criminal record and service use. RESULTS Inmates were more likely to suffer from delusional/NOS psychotic disorders (72%) or major depression (70%), and psychiatric in-patients from schizophrenic or bipolar disorder (62% and 71%, respectively). Comorbidity was more prevalent among inmates than among in-patients, while in-patients presented less social autonomy than did inmates. CONCLUSIONS The clinical specificity of prison inmates with severe mental disorders clearly differentiates them from psychiatric in-patients, and warrants recognition of their special needs for assessment and integrated treatment approaches.
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- G Côté
- Université du Québec à Trois-Riviéres, Canada
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