Blog: Science of EEG
Central location for EEG information, insights, and articles.
EEG – A Powerful and Often Overlooked Diagnostic Tool
EEG tests and EEG monitoring are currently underused when it comes to identifying common diseases and performing neurological assessments in hospital patients, particularly in the United States and Canada. The expanded use of EEG can assist clinicians in making an accurate diagnosis, neurological assessment, or prognosis in patients.
Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures: Common and Difficult to Diagnose
Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures are common and have a wide variety of symptoms, but can often be misdiagnosed and misunderstood.
EEG in Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Global Ischemic Injury to the Brain
TH in the setting of global ischemic injury to the brain is a treatment that benefits from EEG monitoring in adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients.
The Utility of EEG in Clinical Trials
EEG plays an important role in inclusion/exclusion criteria for safety and efficacy evaluations and as biomarkers in clinical trials. Given the heterogeneity of understanding of the strengths and the limitations of EEG in this context, we provide a brief commentary to inform drug sponsors, contract research organizations, and academic partners on some of the questions to consider.
EEG – a Frontline Tool for the ED
The role for EEG evaluation and monitoring in the ED is well documented, though ... there are challenges to obtaining an EEG recording and having it accurately read in a timely manner.
Update on the impact of COVID-19 on EEG activity
Reports from Wuhan and Lombardy early in this pandemic indicated that COVID-19 has a significant impact on the brain. In the acute period of SARS-CoV-2 infection, 34.6 % patients were [...]
Long-Term Video-EEG Studies: EMU vs. In-Home
Long-term EEG studies can take days or weeks to schedule and complete, and studies taking place in the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) come with increased risk in today’s circumstances. The [...]
Teleneurology is Helping Rural Hospitals Retain Patients
Telemedicine or telehealth has been described as a path to virtual integrated care and is changing health care delivery in communities across the United States (US). The use of telehealth [...]
Home-centered EEG Services in the Time of COVID-19
With patients and potential patients across the country being advised to avoid hospitals and to cancel or delay elective procedures, telemedicine and other remote digital health services are being touted as [...]
Resources & Recommendations for Neurodiagnostic Testing During COVID-19
ASET- The Neurodiagnostic Society Recently the American Society for Electrodiagnostic Technologists (ASET) published its recommendations on the appropriate infection control precautions to follow when providing needed diagnostic EEG procedures, assuming [...]
