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Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment: Sensitivity and Specificity with Inclusion of QEEG Parameters

Addressing issues with sensitivity and specificity in TBI assessment this study compared the performance on neuropsychological tests and results from qEEG assessment between a heterogeneous TBI (N=20) group and a matched normal control group (N=20). The TBI group was performed worse on all measures. Significant differences in performance were found in the domains of information processing speed and executive function. Effect sizes of these differences were large. This was also true for the amplitude of the qEEG parameter P3NoGo along with P3Go latency and theta power in the temporal and frontal lobes. Binary logistic regression revealed higher sensitivity and specificity when combining neuropsychological tests and qEEG parameters, suggesting qEEG parameters inĀ  combination with neuropsychological tests to be good assets in TBI assessment.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:ntnu-12306
Date January 2011
CreatorsHansen, Tor Ivar
PublisherNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Psykologisk institutt
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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