Sertindole: EEG Analysis, Tolerability, and Clinical Efficacy.

Introduction: One of the common side effects of antipsychotic drugs is excessive sedation. The treatment with antipsychotics often manifests as an increase in slow wave activity in electroencephalography (EEG). The aim of this study was to analyze EEG recordings of patients treated with a non-sedative antipsychotic drug sertindole with regard to its adverse effects and clinical efficacy.

[The use of event related potentials in psychiatric research].

Background: Event related potentials (ERPs) originate predominantly from cortical structures in response to information processing. In contrast to evoked potentials of short latency (<100 ms), long latency cognitive ERPs are not directly related to the physical characteristics of the stimulus, but rather to the information and meaning that the stimulus has for the investigated person.

Aim: The aim of this review article was to present selected research questions in psychiatry that can be addressed with ERP studies.

[The empirical mode decomposition and Lempel-Ziv complexity. The new possibility in diagnosis of EEG in schizophrenic patients?].

Background: Over the last few decades, numerous attempts have been made to identify electroencephalographic (EEG) manifestations of schizophrenia. However, clinical applicability of these studies has not been demonstrated.

Material And Methods: A novel approach to EEG analysis which is based on combination of two methods of time series analysis was presented.