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High Density Event-related Potential Data Acquisition in Cognitive Neuroscience
Published on: April 16, 2010
Latency and amplitude changes in cognitive event related potentials due to hemodialysis
Abstract:
Chronic kidney disease impacts the cognitive abilities of patients, and yet few works have analyzed functional electroencephalographic changes on event-related potentials before and after an hemodialysis session. This work shows that, as a consequence of hemodialysis, cognitive potential waveforms suffer changes, occurring with reduced latency $( \sim 50$ ms) and with larger amplitude $( \sim 0.128\mathrm {a}$.u.) after the treatment session. While only a limited sample of five patients is reported herein, the observed changes immediately after hemodialysis could be a sign of central nervous system alterations that are not clinically evaluated. Signs like these could entail an early indicator of possible evolution into some neuropathology.
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