Slowing with end-stage renal disease: Attentive but unprepared to act.
Dialyzed patients show longer response latencies to stimuli than healthy controls. This study was designed to learn if this abnormal latency may be related to an impairment in the networks that mediate the allocation of sensory-attention (inducing a delay in stimulus recognition-awareness) and/or an impairment of intentional motor preparation (inducing a delay in action-initiation). Dialyzed patients with end-stage renal disease and matched healthy controls were assessed using reaction time tasks from the ROtman-Baycrest Battery to Investigate Attention (ROBBIA) and event-related potentials (ERPs) to help elucidate the possible attentional and/or intentional brain mechanisms that may account for this slowing. The following ERP components were analyzed for single attentional and intentional processes: response preparation (Contingent Negative Variation); perceptual preparation (P1); selective attention and monitoring (P300/Late Positive Potential). Patients (vs. controls) had a decreased ability to sustain response preparation under the condition of a long (3 s) but not a short (1 s) preparation period. This action-intentional deficit was, however, not accompanied by impaired perceptual preparation and monitoring. Future research may investigate whether deficits observed in dialyzed patients can be reduced with treatments such as kidney transplantation.
Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, Stawki 5/7, 00-183 Warszawa, Poland. Electronic address: jmichalowski@psych.uw.edu.pl.
Jarosław M
JM
Michałowski
Institute of Psychology, University of Gdańsk, Bażyńskiego 4, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland. Electronic address: psymh@ug.edu.pl.
Michał
M
Harciarek
Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Dębinki 7, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.
Bogdan
B
Biedunkiewicz
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
John
J
Williamson
Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Dębinki 7, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.
Alicja
A
Dębska-Ślizień
Department of Nephrology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Gdańsk, Dębinki 7, 80-211 Gdańsk, Poland.
Bolesław
B
Rutkowski
Department of Neurology, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA.
Kenneth M
KM
Heilman
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003265:Contingent Negative Variation; D004569:Electroencephalography; D018913:Event-Related Potentials, P300; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000503:physiopathology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010465:Perception; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D011930:Reaction Time; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012677:Sensation
Action-intention; Chronic kidney disease; Energization; Event-related potentials (ERPs); Executive control; Response preparation; Sensory-attention