Practice Guideline: Use of Quantitative EEG for the Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Report of the Guideline Committee of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.

Despite many decades of research, controversy regarding the utility of quantitative EEG (qEEG) for the accurate diagnosis of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) remains. This guideline is meant to assist clinicians by providing an expert review of the clinical usefulness of qEEG techniques for the diagnosis of mTBI. This guideline addresses the following primary aim: For patients with or without posttraumatic symptoms (abnormal cognition or behavior), does qEEG either at the time of injury or remote from the injury, as compared with current clinical diagnostic criteria, accurately identify those patients with mTBI (i.

Anti-NMDAR Encephalitis.

Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor encephalitis is a newly described disease process. Patients are generally young females who present with psychiatric symptoms and progress to have seizures, abnormal movements, and. autonomic instability.