AUTHOR=Rossi Sebastiano Davide , Varotto Giulia , Sattin Davide , Franceschetti Silvana TITLE=EEG Assessment in Patients With Disorders of Consciousness: Aims, Advantages, Limits, and Pitfalls JOURNAL=Frontiers in Neurology VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2021.649849 DOI=10.3389/fneur.2021.649849 ISSN=1664-2295 ABSTRACT=A brief review of literature data and results of personal experiences will be primary devoted in defining those procedures that can be carried out on the patient's bed, based on the experience and appropriate training of the examiners, by means of sufficiently simple EEG-polygraphic arrangement . These include EEG, with common electrode array, and sleep evaluation More complex, analytical techniques, such are applications of mathematical algorithms on EEG signals, with information arising from literature and personal data, will be briefly discussed with the aim of defining what type of consistent markers may add information suitable for clinical use or for to better understanding the complex patient condition. The general aim of the advanced analytical techniques will that of detecting the relevant data required to evaluate patients, predict outcome; these data are prone to strongly developing in the next future