Developing Brain Vital Signs: Initial Framework for Monitoring Brain Function Changes Over Time.

ABSTRACT: Clinical assessment of brain function relies heavily on indirect behavior-based tests. Unfortunately, behavior-based assessments are subjective and therefore susceptible to several confounding factors. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs), derived from electroencephalography (EEG), are often used to provide objective, physiological measures of brain function. Historically, ERPs have been characterized extensively within research settings, with limited but growing clinical applications. Over the past 20 years, we have developed clinical ERP applications for the evaluation of functional status following serious injury and/or disease. This work has identified an important gap: the need for a clinically accessible framework to evaluate ERP measures. Crucially, this enables baseline measures b

SUBMITTER: Ghosh Hajra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4867677 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature