Use of Quantitative EEG for the Diagnosis of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

For patients with or without symptoms of abnormal cognition or behavior, current evidence does not support the clinical use of qEEG either at the time of the injury or remote from the injury to diagnose mTBI.

In addition, the evidence does not support the use of qEEG to differentiate mTBI from other diagnoses or detect mTBI in the presence of central nervous system medications, and suitable statistical methods do not exist when using qEEG to identify patients with mTBI. Based upon the current literature review, qEEG remains an investigational tool for mTBI diagnosis.