Electroencephalography and Schizophrenia

Quantitative electroencephalography in schizophrenia and depression.

BACKGROUND Standard (qualitative) electroencephalography (EEG) is routinely used in the diagnostic evaluation of psychiatric patients. Quantitative EEG (qEEG) findings differ between patients with schizophrenia, patients with depression, but results are not consistent. The aim of our study was to determine the differences in qEEG parameters between patients with schizophrenia, patients with dep...

Commentary on ''Quantitative electroencephalography in schizophrenia and depression''.

Over-focus on relatively static measures of brain structure, even when combined with biomedical and neuropsychological, functional methodologies, have proven slow to generate risk factors for serious mental illness. Dynamic methodologies, such as the quantitative electroencephalography employed by Begi et al. (2011) show much diagnostic promise. Their differentiation of schizophrenia from depre...

Electroencephalography

Recent advances in electroencephalography (EEG) research are presented. Particular emphasis is placed on sleep and epilepsy research in humans. In this context, among others, studies on the modifications of EEG epileptic activity during sleep are discussed in more detail. A large number of reports come from EEG monitoring during presurgical evaluation and surgical treatment of drug-resistant ep...

Electroencephalography.

Application of Electroencephalography to the Study of Cognitive and Brain Functions in Schizophrenia

The electroencephalogram (EEG) recorded from the human scalp is widely used to study cognitive and brain functions in schizophrenia. Current research efforts are primarily devoted to the assessment of event-related potentials (ERPs) and event-related oscillations (EROs), extracted from the ongoing EEG, in patients with schizophrenia and in clinically unaffected individuals who, due to their fam...