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Article: EEG may identify antidepressant effectiveness.(Psychiatry)(Electroencephalography)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- May 1, 2008
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VIENNA -- A quantitative EEG bio-marker shows considerable promise for early prediction of antidepressant response in major depression, Dr. Andrew J. Leuchter said at the annual congress of the European College of Neuropsy chopharmacology.
The biomarker is obtained via an abbreviated frontal EEG study conducted after 1 week of therapy. The current and often prolonged trial-and-error approach to finding an effective antidepressant for an individual with major depression could be replaced by a 10- to 15-minute quantitative EEG study analyzed using proprietary technology in real time in a physician's office, Dr. Leuchter explained.
"Eventually, I could see ...