Posted by pseudoname on April 4, 2006, at 18:01:47
In reply to rEEG » honeybee, posted by pseudoname on April 4, 2006, at 16:08:22
I guess they've got about 2,000 people in their private database, but that includes people with drug addiction, bulimia, OCD, ADHD, headaches, and fibromyalgia, not just depressives. They don't say how many from each group.
They did a controlled study of 11 treatment-resistant depressives in 1996-97. They say the study is “submitted for publication”, but they don't say when or where, and it was finished 9 years ago.
In the study, 5 patients got regularly-selected drugs and 6 patients got rEEG-selected drugs. After 6 weeks at therapeutic doses, none of the 5 regular patients had better than modest improvement, but 3 of the 6 rEEG patients had scores near remission.
Interestingly, the rEEG didn't advise *which* antidepressant to use, just very broad categories: (1) Antidepressant, (2) Anticonvulsant/lithium, and (3) Stimulant.
Thing is, I've tried EVERY possible combination of those broad categories over the years, so if rEEG hasn't gotten more specific by now, there's no way it could benefit me.
• Suffin, Stephen C; W Hamlin Emory; et al. (Submitted). “A QEEG Method for Predicting Pharmacotherapeutic Outcome in Refractory Major Depressive Disorder: A Pilot Study”. http://www.cnsresponse.com/Documents/Prospstudyfull.pdf
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