[The analysis of event-related potentials in normal brain aging based on N-back cognitive tasks]
Cong Liu1, Xiaodong Xu2, Haoyun Dai2
1School of Science, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing 211198, P.R.China.
Abstract:
The purpose of this study is to investigate the change of the whole brain event-related potentials(P300) in normal brain aging based on N-back cognitive tasks. The P300 of 15 normal young people and 10 normal old people were evaluated based on N-back cognitive tasks and analyzed. The results showed that the P300 latency of old people was longer in whole brain than young people, and amplitude was increased in the frontal-central region, while significantly increased in the pre-frontal region in the same load cognitive tasks. With the cognitive task load increasing, the amplitude of old people in high-load task was higher in the whole brain than that in low-load task, mainly in in the frontal region, but the difference was not statistically significant. The latency in the high-load task was shorter in the frontal-central region of right brain than the low-load task, and the difference was statistically significant. Thus, P300 showed that the normal brain aging process is mainly reflected in the pre-frontal region, and the high-load cognitive task could better reflect the change of brain function compared with the low-load cognitive task. The finding is of revelatory meaning for diagnosis of early dementia in patients.
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