PET and P300 Relationships in Early Alzheimer's Disease

Authors

James T. Marsh, University of California - Los Angeles
Glena Andrews, George Fox UniversityFollow
Warren S. Brown, University of California - Los Angeles
Walter Riege, University of California - Los Angeles
Robert Strandburg, University of California - Los Angeles
Deborah Dorsey, University of California - Los Angeles
Adrianne Maltese, University of California - Los Angeles
David Kuhl, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1990

Abstract

The P300 (P3) wave of the auditory brain event-related potential was investigated in patients with probable Alzheimer's disease to determine whether P300 latency discriminated these patients from controls and whether prolonged P300 latency correlated with rates of brain glucose metabolism as measured by Positron Emission Tomography. P300 latency was prolonged by more than 1.5 standard deviations from age expectancy in 14 of 18 patients, but none of 17 controls. In these subjects P300 latency was shown to be inversely correlated with relative metabolic rates of parietal and, to a lesser extent, temporal and frontal association areas, but not with subcortical areas.

Recommended Citation

Published in Neurobiology of Aging, 1990, 11, 471-476.