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2013, Number 6

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2013; 14 (6)

EEG studies of patients with anxiety disorder

Pando-Orellana LA, Vera-García F, Lecumberri-Salazar B

Language: Spanish
References: 22
Page: 335-340
PDF size: 160.41 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: Neuropsychiatric diagnosis is primarily clinical. However, the need for tools to facilitate the diagnostic task made imperative the searching for instruments based on clinical observation that correlate with neurobiological markers, but the interpretation is never obvious.
Objectve: To determine whether anxiety disorder involves a differential effect on EEG recordings conducted in patients with neuropsychiatric comorbidity.
Methods: We compared interhemispheric findings in patients with anxiety, the asymmetry index between patients with anxiety and depression, and EEG averages of patients with anxiety, depression and both.
Results: We replicated previously conducted studies on interhemispheric asymmetry in patients with anxiety and asymmetry index between patients with anxiety and depression. No statistically significant differences were found between the three groups.
Conclusions:These results suggest a trend that points to a differential brain function in patients with neuropsychiatric comorbidity. However, it was not possible to replicate previous findings about a clear distinction of specific neuropsychiatric disorders based on EEG recordings.


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