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. 2014:2014:945121.
doi: 10.1155/2014/945121. Epub 2014 Mar 26.

Impairment in preattentive processing among patients with hypertension revealed by visual mismatch negativity

Cuiping Si  1 , Changjie Ren  2 , Peng Wang  2 , Hetao Bian  2 , Haiming Wang  2 , Zhongrui Yan  2
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Impairment in preattentive processing among patients with hypertension revealed by visual mismatch negativity

Cuiping Si et al. Biomed Res Int. 2014.

Abstract

Objective: Patients with hypertension show deficits in cognitive function. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the preattentive information processing in hypertensive patients are poorly understood. We seek to investigate whether hypertensive patients have impairments in preattentive information processing.

Methods: We compared visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) between 15 hypertensive patients and 15 age-matched healthy controls, which was elicited by the change of visual duration randomly presented in both peripheral visual fields. In addition, the global cognitive function for all participants was assessed with Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE).

Results: The vMMN in deviant-standard comparison was observed at occipital-temporal regions. Compared with normal healthy controls, the amplitude of vMMN was significantly decreased in hypertensive patients (P < 0.05). Meanwhile, the vMMN peak latency was delayed in the hypertensive group (P < 0.05). However, the MMSE scores of patients with hypertension were not significantly different from those of controls (P > 0.05), and there was no significant correlation between the mean amplitude of vMMN and SBP, DBP, and MMSE in hypertensive individuals, respectively.

Conclusions: These data indicate dysfunction of automatically change detection processing in patients with hypertension. Moreover, the changes of vMMN provide a more objective and reliable assessment for cognitive impairment in hypertensive patients.

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Figure 1
The grand average ERP waveforms at the temporal-occipital sites elicited by deviant and standard stimuli in normal and hypertensive groups, respectively.
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The vMMN elicited by visual duration stimuli at the temporal-occipital sites in normal and hypertensive groups as well as 2D mapping of vMMN in two groups.
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