Biol Psychiatry. 1990 Sep 1;28(5):372-86.

Normal latency of the P300 event-related potential in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer's disease and depression.

Kraiuhin C, Gordon E, Coyle S, Sara G, Rennie C, Howson A, Landau P, Meares R.

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Neuroscience Unit, Westmead Hospital, NSW, Australia.

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A two-tone-discrimination task was used to elicit the P300 component of event-related (brain) potentials (ERPs) from patients with presumed Alzheimer's dementia of mild or moderate severity, depressed patients of older age, and cognitively normal individuals. Although the average P300 latency of the Alzheimer patients was greater than that of the depressed patients, which in turn was greater than that of older aged normals, none of the group differences in latency were statistically significant. Moreover, when latency was examined on an individual basis, less than one-quarter of the Alzheimer patients had an abnormally delayed P300 for their age. Reaction times and the percentage of correct behavioral responses to the tones did distinguish the Alzheimer from the normal group; on both measures the patients' scores were significantly worse. It was concluded that the performance of a simple tone discrimination task requiring a button-press response does not sufficiently tax those cognitive functions impaired in the earlier stages of Alzheimer's dementia to result in abnormally slowed cognitive processing of the kind reflected in P300 latency.

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