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Quantitative EEG for Early and Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorders: a Comprehensive Review of the Literature

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This paper is aimed to review the applications and potentials of QEEG in early diagnosis of bipolar disorders as well as its diagnostic efficacy for differential diagnosis against other cognitive abnormalities with the same clinical symptoms. The databases of PubMed (1990–2016), EMBASE (1990–2016), Web of Sciences (1990–2016), and Google Scholar (1980–2016) were searched using the search terms of “quantitative electroencephalogram” or “QEEG”, “bipolar disorders”, “early diagnosis”, and “differential diagnosis”. selected for further evaluations. The evidence indicates diagnostic efficacy of QEEG for early diagnosis of bipolar disorders (BDs). Controlled clinical studies have indicated that QEEG extracted measures may have the same diagnostic value for early and differential diagnosis of BDs as these conventional assessments.

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  1. Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Ali Yadollahpour & Samaneh Rashidi

  2. Bioelectromagnetic Clinic, Imam Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Ali Yadollahpour

  3. School of Medicine, Esfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Maryam Mirzaiyan

  4. Student Research Committee, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

    Samaneh Rashidi

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Yadollahpour, A., Mirzaiyan, M. & Rashidi, S. Quantitative EEG for Early and Differential Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorders: a Comprehensive Review of the Literature. Int J Ment Health Addiction 15, 387–393 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-017-9739-x

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