The human electroencephalogram (EEG) may be the most complex set of signals in nature and is certainly the most complicated phenomenon routinely subjected to scientific experimentation. That electrical potentials are detectable at the scalp at all is the result of some fortuitous neural architecture. Human neocortex consists of tightly packed arrays of columns, six neurons deep, aligned perpend...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability of several well-known quantitative EEG (qEEG) features in the elderly in the resting, eyes closed condition and study the effects of epoch length and channel derivations on reliability. METHODS Fifteen healthy adults, over 50 years of age, underwent 10 EEG recordings over a 2-month period. Various qEEG features derived from power spectral, coherence, e...

Electroencephalography (EEG) can be a valuable technique to assess electrophysiological changes related to dementia. In patients suspected of having dementia, the EEG is often quite informative. The sensitivity of the EEG to detect correlates of psychiatric disorders has been enhanced by means of quantitative methods of analysis (quantitative EEG). Quantitative features are extracted from, at l...

OBJECTIVES To characterize the neurophysiological changes in a patient with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and to compare these changes with a small cohort of patients with neurocardiogenic syncope, an analogous cause of transient neurological dysfunction. DESIGN Case report and quantitative analysis of a small electroencephalography (EEG) cohort. SETTING University-affiliated teaching ...

BACKGROUND The effects of anesthesia on the equine electroencephalogram (EEG) after administration of various drugs for sedation, induction, and maintenance are known, but not that the effect of inhaled anesthetics alone for EEG recording. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of isoflurane and halothane, administered as single agents at multiple levels, on the EEG and quantitative EEG (qEEG) of...