Endocrine Abstracts

The P300 wave is an event related potential which is used to assess cognitive function, it is recorded as positive deflection in voltage at latency of roughly 300 ms. P300 latency suggests that shorter latency times are related to cognitive performance. This study was undertaken to evaluate objectively effect of hypothyroidism on latencies of ERPs and response to thyroxine replacement.Biochemically proven new onset cases with hypothyroidism were enrolled...