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The utility of EEG in dementia — a clinical perspective
Author(s)	Dimitrios Adamis, Sunita Sahu, Adrian Treloar
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 20, no 11, November 2005
Pages	pp 1038-1045
Source	http://www.interscience.wiley.com
Keywords	Dementia ; Evaluation ; Psychiatric treatment ; Clinical surveys ; Literature reviews.
Annotation	Despite being simple and cheap, electroencephalography (EEG) is not often used in clinical practice. A literature search using PUBMED and Medline finds that quantitative EEG can help to identify mild dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and can increase diagnostic accuracy when used with other imaging techniques. EEG helps differentiate organic from functional brain disease and predict response to cholinesterase inhibitors, and is central to the diagnosis of Creuzfeld Jacob disease (CJD). The accuracy of the EEG may be greater than that of CT or MRI scans alone. Quantitative EEG may save on specialist interpretation time and enable more routine use of EEG in diagnosis and care. More widespread use of EEG is indicated. Agreement on the parameters that are best measured on qEEG is still awaited. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-060106209 A
Classmark	EA: 4C: LP: 3G: 64A
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