EEG-NeuroBioFeedback Treatment of Patients with Brain Injury: Part 1: Typological Classification of Clinical Syndromes

Abstract

A group of 27 patients with brain injury were treated by electroencephalographic (EEG) NeuroBioFeedback under drug-free conditions. They were studied for distribution in classes of major syndromes for evaluation of treatment efficiency and rehabilitation rates with respect to associated EEG and other physiological changes. A total of 48 clinical symptoms were listed, each present in at least one patient. Classes of clinical signs have been computed using both medical and statistical criteria. Claimed and presented chief complaints, secondary complaints and all associated signs were incorporated in multivariate analysis. Substantial intersection of medical and statistical distributions was observed. This provided a classification of symptoms into six classes representing the following syndromes of impaired functions: Ql = motor; Q2 = language; Q3 = cognitive; Q4 = psychosocial; Q5 = pain-related; Q6(a & b) = neuropsychiatrie; Q7 = metabolic. This work provides a rationale for the membership of each patient in a set of classes of syndromes determined by the whole set of clinical signs specifically exhibited by this group of patients. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)