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Research: EEG changes in Psychiatric Patients

Psychiatry/Neurology


EEG monitoring. There is another person next to her with the same settings.
07. Today's case: Research by EEG. 2018/03/27. 
Psychiatry Department.

128 Leads. compared to the previous hospital case(32 leads).

256 leads maximum. There is another person, who also has EEG.

They are researching about EEG pattern of ADHD and schizophrenia patient.

Research settings:
1. Pictures are shown every 2 seconds. The subject is expected to push
   a button every time a picture is shown.  
2. Except the same picture is shown.
   As simple as that.

The test is examining two things.
A. concentration. (check it is the same picture? short-time memory,
   too.) It is every 2 seconds, so it is kind of fast. ADHD(Attention
   deficit) patients typically lack it. 
B. Inhibition. It is like a rythmical button pushing every 2 seconds,
   but it must be stopped once the same picture is shown. This is
   inhibitory, which is tested here and which typically lacks in
   ADHD.(hyperactive) 

One more thing: What kind of picture is shown?
a. There are some emotional evoking contents. 
b. Three types: anger/disgusting, happy, neutral.
c. disgusting is, for example, brutally murdered body.
I joined once in ADHD patient. she said it is really disgusting. 
This time the subject is normal patients and, seemingly, nurses, so
they did not complain about the content of pictures.  

The task:
a. individual task: they do the task individually. but the other can
   see the same content. and button(mouse) clicking sound is heard by the
   other. 
b. competitive task: two subjects compete each other. if you push the
   button faster than the other, you got a point. 
c. cooperative task: when both are answered correctly by pushing
   button or not pushing button, then they got the point. 

May I ask for two data from today's two subjects?
1. results of "push buttons". 
2. results of IQ tests.

I noticed that there are very difference in the results between two
subjects. The Left(Subject one) pushed her button more wrongly than the
other(Right and Subject two). 
The examination is mainly testing
A. concentration (ADHD patients lacks)
B. inhibition. (ADHD patients lacks)

My hypothesis is (generally) that these abilities are connected to
intelligence(such as IQ and school performance). 
Dr. Mete and I discussed a little about this,
and he said I would have to ask you if I really would like to see the
co-relation. 

I am also interested in quantifying the co-relation;
What is the coherence between "push button" examination(mistake rate)
and IQs? 

Maybe this simple test can be used for treatment of ADHD by training
concentration (and inhibition). 

As (I think) I mentioned before, I have a master degree of computer science.
If it would be interesting by a pilot analysis, I can make an easy
program to analyze the data of "push button" test, 
thus we can analyze all 100 patients' data relatively easily.
(Dr. Mete showed me the data format; text format.)


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