{"title":"Electroencephalography Prediction of Neurological Outcomes After Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Xina Ding, Zhixiao Shen","doi":"10.1177/15500594231211105","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15500594231211105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Background.</i> Predicting neurological outcomes after hypoxic-ischemic brain injury (HIBI) is difficult. <i>Objective.</i> Electroencephalography (EEG) can identify acute and subacute brain abnormalities after hypoxic brain injury and predict HIBI recovery. We examined EEG's ability to predict neurologic outcomes following HIBI. <i>Method.</i> A PRISMA-compliant search was conducted in the Medline, Embase, Cochrane, and Central databases until January 2023. EEG-predicted neurological outcomes in HIBI patients were selected from relevant perspective and retrospective cohort studies. RevMan did meta-analysis, while QDAS2 assessed research quality. <i>Results.</i> Eleven studies with 3761 HIBI patients met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We aggregated study-level estimates of sensitivity and specificity for EEG patterns determined a priori using random effect bivariate and univariate meta-analysis when appropriate. Positive indicators and anatomical area heterogeneity impacted prognosis accuracy. Funnel plots analyzed publication bias. Significant heterogeneity of greater than 80% was among the included studies with <i>P</i> < 0.001. The area under the curve was 0.94, the threshold effect was <i>P</i> < 0.001, and the sensitivity and specificity, with 95% confidence intervals, were 0.91 (0.84-0.99) and 0.86 (0.75-0.97). EEG detects status epilepticus and burst suppression with good sensitivity, specificity, and little probability of false-negative impairment result attribution. Study quality varied by domain, but patient flow and timing were well conducted in all. <i>Conclusion.</i> EEG can predict the outcome of HIBI with good prognostic accuracy, but more standardized cross-study protocols and descriptions of EEG patterns are needed to better evaluate its prognostic use for patients with HIBI.</p>","PeriodicalId":93940,"journal":{"name":"Clinical EEG and neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"15500594231211105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71523812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction of the Special Issue on \"Neurophysiology/Neuroimaging Study in Japan\".","authors":"Toshiaki Onitsuka","doi":"10.1177/15500594231207497","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15500594231207497","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93940,"journal":{"name":"Clinical EEG and neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49686379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normalized Power Variance: A new Field Orthogonal to Power in EEG Analysis.","authors":"Yasunori Aoki, Hiroaki Kazui, Roberto D Pascual-Marqui, Ricardo Bruña, Kenji Yoshiyama, Tamiki Wada, Hideki Kanemoto, Yukiko Suzuki, Takashi Suehiro, Yuto Satake, Maki Yamakawa, Masahiro Hata, Leonides Canuet, Ryouhei Ishii, Masao Iwase, Manabu Ikeda","doi":"10.1177/15500594221088736","DOIUrl":"10.1177/15500594221088736","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To date, electroencephalogram (EEG) has been used in the diagnosis of epilepsy, dementia, and disturbance of consciousness via the inspection of EEG waves and identification of abnormal electrical discharges and slowing of basic waves. In addition, EEG power analysis combined with a source estimation method like exact-low-resolution-brain-electromagnetic-tomography (eLORETA), which calculates the power of cortical electrical activity from EEG data, has been widely used to investigate cortical electrical activity in neuropsychiatric diseases. However, the recently developed field of mathematics \"information geometry\" indicates that EEG has another dimension orthogonal to power dimension - that of normalized power variance (NPV). In addition, by introducing the idea of information geometry, a significantly faster convergent estimator of NPV was obtained. Research into this NPV coordinate has been limited thus far. In this study, we applied this NPV analysis of eLORETA to idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) patients prior to a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt operation, where traditional power analysis could not detect any difference associated with CSF shunt operation outcome. Our NPV analysis of eLORETA detected significantly higher NPV values at the high convexity area in the beta frequency band between 17 shunt responders and 19 non-responders. Considering our present and past research findings about NPV, we also discuss the advantage of this application of NPV representing a sensitive early warning signal of cortical impairment. Overall, our findings demonstrated that EEG has another dimension - that of NPV, which contains a lot of information about cortical electrical activity that can be useful in clinical practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":93940,"journal":{"name":"Clinical EEG and neuroscience","volume":"54 6","pages":"611-619"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71430175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative Electroencephalography Objectivity and Reliability in the Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review.","authors":"Francesco Amico, Jaroslaw Lucas Koberda","doi":"10.1177/15500594231202265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/15500594231202265","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Background.</i> Persons with a history of traumatic brain injury (TBI) may exhibit short- and long-term cognitive deficits as well as psychiatric symptoms. These symptoms often reflect functional anomalies in the brain that are not detected by standard neuroimaging. In this context, quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG) is more suitable to evaluate non-normative activity in a wide range of clinical settings. <i>Method.</i> We searched the literature using the \"Medline\" and \"Web of Science\" online databases. The search was concluded on February 23, 2023, and revised on July 12, 2023. It returned 134 results from Medline and 4 from Web of Science. We then applied the PRISMA method, which led to the selection of 31 articles, the most recent one published in March 2023. <i>Results.</i> The qEEG method can detect functional anomalies in the brain occurring immediately after and even years after injury, revealing in most cases abnormal power variability and increases in slow (delta and theta) versus decreases in fast (alpha, beta, and gamma) frequency activity. Moreover, other findings show that reduced beta coherence between frontoparietal regions is associated with slower processing speed in patients with recent mild TBI (mTBI). More recently, machine learning (ML) research has developed highly reliable models and algorithms for the detection of TBI, some of which are already integrated into commercial qEEG equipment. <i>Conclusion.</i> Accumulating evidence indicates that the qEEG method may improve the diagnosis and management of TBI, in many cases revealing long-term functional anomalies in the brain or even neuroanatomical insults that are not revealed by standard neuroimaging. While FDA clearance has been obtained only for some of the commercially available equipment, the qEEG method allows for systematic, cost-effective, non-invasive, and reliable investigations at emergency departments. Importantly, the automated implementation of intelligent algorithms based on multimodally acquired, clinically relevant measures may play a key role in increasing diagnosis reliability.</p>","PeriodicalId":93940,"journal":{"name":"Clinical EEG and neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":"15500594231202265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41157862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}