New Insights in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders Thanks to Electrophysiological Tools.

Substance use disorders (SUD) still represent a huge worldwide health problem, as, despite withdrawal, medication, social support and psychotherapy, the relapse rate (around 80% at one year following treatment) remains tremendously high. Therefore, an important challenge consists in finding new complementary add-on tools to enhance quality of care. In this report we focus on new insights reported through the use of three electrophysiological tools (quantitative electroencephalography (EEG), QEEG; cognitive event-related potentials, ERPs; and neurofeedback) suggesting that their use might be helpful at the clinical level in the management of various forms of SUDs.