SynthesisEpilepsy & behavior : E&B2021
Meta-analysis of EEG findings in patients with COVID-19.
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- Parallel electrophysiological abnormalities due to COVID-19 infection and to Alzheimer's disease and related dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Pooled it
- Database and AI Diagnostic Tools Improve Understanding of Lung Damage, Correlation of Pulmonary Disease and Brain Damage in COVID-19.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Pooled it
- Non-Invasive Multimodal Neuromonitoring in Non-Critically Ill Hospitalized Adult Patients With COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Mamba-Bi-LSTM with SHAP-Guided Iterative Refinement for Multimodal ARDS Diagnosis: A Dual-System Framework.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Magnetoencephalography Reveals Neuroprotection of COVID-19 Vaccination in Nonhuman Primates.Vaccines · 2026Article
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- EEG Signatures of COVID-19 Survival compared to close contacts and the Cuban EEG normative database.Clinical neurophysiology practice · 2026Article
- Serum NSE and EEG sleep figures for prognostication of short-term outcomes in adults with severe COVID-19 pneumonia: a prospective single-center study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Need for awareness and surveillance of long-term post-COVID neurodegenerative disorders. A position paper from the neuroCOVID-19 task force of the European Academy of Neurology.Journal of neurology · 2025Review
- Microglia dysfunction, neurovascular inflammation and focal neuropathologies are linked to IL-1- and IL-6-related systemic inflammation in COVID-19.Nature neuroscience · 2025Article
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of brain neuroimaging abnormalities in COVID-19 patients and survivors.Psychoradiology · 2025Article
- Transcranial alternating current stimulation in affecting cognitive impairment in psychiatric disorders: a review.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Review
- Brain exposure to SARS-CoV-2 virions perturbs synaptic homeostasis.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Brain on Fire: How Brain Infection and Neuroinflammation Drive Worldwide Epilepsy Burden.Epilepsy currents · 2024Review
- Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Resting-State Brain Activity in Individuals with Tinnitus.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Clinical manifestations and EEG findings in children infected with COVID-19 and exhibiting neurological symptoms.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Long COVID and its association with neurodegenerative diseases: pathogenesis, neuroimaging, and treatment.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
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- [Subtle and subclinical neurological findings in patients with SARS-CoV-2].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2023Observational
- Effects of COVID-19 on cognition and brain health.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2023Review
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveTo perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to summarize and quantitatively evaluate the electroencephalogram (EEG) findings in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
methodsThe MEDLINE, CENTRAL, and ClinicalTrials.Gov databases were comprehensively assessed and searched for observational studies with EEG findings in patients with COVID-19. Pooled proportions of EEG findings with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were assessed using a random effects model. The quality of assessment for each study, heterogeneity between the studies, and publication bias were also evaluated.
resultsIn total, 12 studies with 308 patients were included in the meta-analysis. Abnormal background activity and generalized slowing in the pooled proportions were common findings among the patients with COVID-19 (96.1% [95% CI: 89.4-99.9]; I
conclusionThe proportion of abnormal background activity in patients with COVID-19 was high (96.1%). Epileptiform discharges were present in 20.3% of the cases and the proportion varied between people who had a history of epilepsy/seizure and those who did not. However, the proportion of seizures and status epilepticus on EEG was low (2.05% and 0. 80%, respectively).
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