Narrative Review: Quantitative EEG in Disorders of Consciousness

Brain Sciences

PatrickB. Langthaler¹  Aljoscha Thomschewski¹  Eugen Trinka¹  StefanM. Golaszewski¹  Jürgen Bergmann¹  AlexanderB. Kunz¹  Kerstin Schwenker¹  Stefan Leis¹  Betty Wutzl²  Kenji Leibnitz² 

[1] Department of Neurology, Christian Doppler Medical Center, and Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Paracelsus Medical University, Affiliated Member of the European Reference Network EpiCARE, 5020 Salzburg, Austria;Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan;

关键词: unresponsive wakefulness syndrome;    minimally conscious state;    EEG;    quantitative EEG;    disorders of consciousness;    diagnosis;   

DOI  :  10.3390/brainsci11060697

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this narrative review, we focus on the role of quantitative EEG technology in the diagnosis and prognosis of patients with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome and minimally conscious state. This paper is divided into two main parts, i.e., diagnosis and prognosis, each consisting of three subsections, namely, (i) resting-state EEG, including spectral power, functional connectivity, dynamic functional connectivity, graph theory, microstates and nonlinear measurements, (ii) sleep patterns, including rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, slow-wave sleep and sleep spindles and (iii) evoked potentials, including the P300, mismatch negativity, the N100, the N400 late positive component and others. Finally, we summarize our findings and conclude that QEEG is a useful tool when it comes to defining the diagnosis and prognosis of DOC patients.

【 授权许可】

Unknown