NON-INVASIVE EEG EXAMINATION ACROSS A SPECTRUM OF ASSESSMENT METHODS AND ITS APPLICATION IN VETERINARY MEDICINE: A REVIEW
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https://doi.org/10.66211/tmvm.v11i2.343Keywords:
veterinary electroencephalography, brain waves, brain electrical activity, EEG assessment methodsAbstract
The study of the brain electrical activity is used in various fields of medicine, veterinary medicine and neuroscience. With a focus of veterinary medicine, the electroencephalography (EEG) method is widely used to examine cognitive abilities of pets, their behavior and human-pet relationships, as well as to diagnose neu-ropathologies in adult animals, mainly dogs and cats. Evaluation of EEG data involves performing visual anal-ysis when working with a small amount of information. In recent years, however, more and more attention has been paid to automated software processing of EEG recordings (the so-called quantitative EEG (qEEG) anal-ysis), due to its precision, specificity and ability to valuate a large amount of information. Various monitoring systems have also been developed to calculate indices of consciousness used in anesthesiology to monitor the depth of anesthesia. EEG has yet to establish its importance and place. The number of scientific publications devoted to EEG is growing, but more research is needed to reach a consensus on individual methods for eval-uation and processing EEG data. The present review aims to summarize what is known to date, describing the methods for analysis and interpretation of EEGs and its application in veterinary medicine.
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