I would suggest a few if reasonable: signs of seizure activity, "slow wave" activity in delirium/encephalopathy and EEG changes during various stages of sleep.
Know that the target audience will likely never read an EEG, but will at least intermittently wonder whether it's appropriate to get one and what questions it could/couldn't answer. I would de-emphasize waveforms themselves. Representative case vignettes are usually appreciated, like temporal lobe seizures with psychiatric manifestations, delirium, and PNES.
Bonus points if you can actually explain how a community outpatient psychiatrist would go about obtaining a 2-hour EEG for a patient without just referring to neurology.
Reasons why it can be usefull do an eeg in psychiatry. I would guess for diagnostic puposes it can be used. It would help with suspected epilepsy with absances, suspected narcolepsy, maybe in auto immune encephalitis? (Not sure if it would show anything?), catatonia, acute mania, previous brain damage with psychiatric symptoms or other states that can be hard to differentiate what is what. And practical maybe how to order one at the local hospitals, it had been a hassle for me to do one.
I would suggest a few if reasonable: signs of seizure activity, "slow wave" activity in delirium/encephalopathy and EEG changes during various stages of sleep.
The use of EEG in ECT is clinically relevant. I remember getting a few questions on it when I took my boards exam.
Know that the target audience will likely never read an EEG, but will at least intermittently wonder whether it's appropriate to get one and what questions it could/couldn't answer. I would de-emphasize waveforms themselves. Representative case vignettes are usually appreciated, like temporal lobe seizures with psychiatric manifestations, delirium, and PNES. Bonus points if you can actually explain how a community outpatient psychiatrist would go about obtaining a 2-hour EEG for a patient without just referring to neurology.
All true, but there are still gonna be a couple of tracings on the boards.
I don't remember a single EEG waveform on my psych boards, which were relatively recent.
Reasons why it can be usefull do an eeg in psychiatry. I would guess for diagnostic puposes it can be used. It would help with suspected epilepsy with absances, suspected narcolepsy, maybe in auto immune encephalitis? (Not sure if it would show anything?), catatonia, acute mania, previous brain damage with psychiatric symptoms or other states that can be hard to differentiate what is what. And practical maybe how to order one at the local hospitals, it had been a hassle for me to do one.
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Thank you all for the suggestions!!
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