Increased frontal phase-locking of event-related theta oscillations in Alzheimer patients treated with cholinesterase inhibitors.

نویسندگان

  • G G Yener
  • B Güntekin
  • A Oniz
  • E Başar
چکیده

This is a pilot study describing event-related oscillations in patients with Alzheimer-type dementia (AD). Theta responses of 22 mild probable AD subjects according to NINCDS-ADRDA criteria (11 non-treated, 11 treated by cholinesterase inhibitors), and 20 healthy elderly controls were analyzed by using the conventional visual oddball paradigm. We aimed to compare theta responses of the three groups in a range between 4-7 Hz at the frontal electrodes. At F(3) location, theta responses of healthy subjects were phase locked to stimulation and theta oscillatory responses of non-treated Alzheimer patients showed weaker phase-locking, i.e. average of Z-transformed means of correlation coefficients between single trials was closer to zero. In treated AD patients, phase-locking following target stimulation was two times higher in comparison to the responses of non-treated patients. The results indicate that the phase-locking of theta oscillations at F(3) in the treated patients is as strong as the control subjects. The F(4) theta responses were not statistically significant between the groups. Our findings imply that the theta responses at F(3) location are highly unstable in comparison to F(4) in non-treated mild AD patients and cholinergic agents may modulate event-related theta oscillatory activities in the frontal regions.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology

دوره 64 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007