The battery includes the following tests - EEG, Quantitative EEG (QEEG),
as well as Visual, auditory brainstem and somatosensory brainstem Evoked
Response Tests.
The purpose of the tests is to measure degree of deviation in brain wave
activity from the norm (the standard measurements universally found in
the normal population of the same age group).
That information helps locating specific types of brain dysfunction,
associate them with psychiatric pathology, measure the extent of its abnormality,
and provide useful information as to the best protocols to choose for
brainwave training (Neurofeedback training). It also assists in choosing
the most effective medication based on physiological measurements, and
not just clinical symptoms.
QEEG can be used to screen for sub-clinical and emerging cognitive dysfunctions
associated with dementia, alcoholism and drug abuse, and are very useful
in court, when trying to objectively establish or refute the presence
of brain damage and dysfunction.
The Evoked Responses provide additional information on pathology indifferent
locations bellow the surface of the brain, which may cause a conduction
delay there.
All tests are assessed together and against each other, and provide therefore
a 'three dimensional information' about brain dysfunction.
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