EEG in der Psychiatrie

Standard electroencephalography (EEG) remains an indispensable method in the diagnostic workup of psychiatric disorders. EEG is a widely available and inexpensive tool for the assessment of brain functional alterations and is of relevance especially in patients with non-distinctive alterations of consciousness, cognitive impairments, and for the detection of epileptiform potentials and abnormal brain electric excitability, including non-convulsive epileptic states.