Scalp EEG Test May Be Able to Predict Future Psychosis

The clinical symptoms currently used to predict a patient’s risk of future psychosis fail two-thirds of the time. Only one-in-three people identified by clinical criteria as being at risk actually developed a psychotic disorder in a three-year follow-up study. This makes the decision to prescribe, or to take, antipsychotic medications as an early preventive intervention extremely difficult since these medications carry risk of serious side effects.

 

Read more at the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.