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What is rEEG?
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Referenced-EEG is a tool to provide objective neurophysiology-based, patient-specific information to qualified medical professionals. The Referenced-EEG report contains information for the treating physician on what medications past patients with similar EEG patterns used to achieve positive outcomes. Medical treatment of mental disorders differs fundamentally from the treatment of all other health disturbances in one important way – psychiatrists or addiction specialists have no objective physiologic measurements to guide treatment of mental or addictive illness. Medical advances in the 20th Century provided x-rays to the orthopedist, EKGs to the cardiologist and CT scans to the neurologist. Detecting the unique physical differences among patients with similar illnesses, objective tools were able to help doctors personalize medical treatment for each patient’s needs. No such tool has been available for physiologic brain measurement in patients with mental and/or addictive disorders. Treatment choice has relied on a diagnostic system that considers behavioral observations by the physician and descriptions of emotion and behavior by patient or family members as the primary basis for deciding treatment. Without benefit of such tools, physicians simply are making an educated guess as to what an effective therapy might be. This explains why the majority of patients with these conditions experience either no response, a partial response, or a temporary response to pharmacotherapy.
History of rEEG®rEEG® was developed by co-founders Stephen C. Suffin, M.D. and Hamlin Emory, M.D. over an eighteen year collaboration. Dr. Suffin was responsible for the EEG laboratory, initial mathematical modeling and computer analysis of the data, while Dr. Emory performed the psychiatric assessments, medication management, monitored physical findings and qualified each patient’s medication intervals for database entry with Brian MacDonald, the Company’s Chief Engineer. Who Uses rEEG®While physicians have used rEEG in a wide range of specialties, including Psychiatry, Neurology, Family Medicine and Addiction medicine, it is primarily used by Psychiatrists.
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