Background: When searching for reliable and specific markers for certain psychiatric diseases, preliminary investigations of the sleep EEG’s microstructure point to the view that the delta/beta correlation coefficients during NREM sleep appear increased in depressives, but not in schizophrenics. Therefore, this parameter could be hypothesized to be a marker of depression. On the other hand, sub...

Animal welfare and public perception of animal welfare is guiding animal agriculture, practices and policies. Producers are faced with the challenge of improving production efficiency and meeting environmental and animal welfare restrictions. Many of the current measures of assessment of animal welfare are qualitative rather than quantitative. The objective of this study is to develop and evalu...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether measures of quantitative spectral electroencephalography (EEG) can predict survival in patients with early Alzheimer disease. DESIGN Prospective cohort study; median duration of follow-up was 4.4 years in survivors and 2.6 years in nonsurvivors. Cox proportional hazards models, with adjustment for age and sex were used to estimate relationships between EEG measu...

INTRODUCTION Traumatic brain injury and generalized convulsive status epilepticus (GCSE) are conditions that require aggressive management. Barbiturates are used to lower intracranial pressure or to stop epileptiform activity, with the aim being to improve neurological outcome. Dosing of barbiturates is usually guided by the extent of induced burst-suppression pattern on the electroencephalogra...