Limitations of the American Academy of Neurology and American Clinical Neurophysiology Society paper on QEEG

A committee of experts, including physicians and psychologists, has drafted this response to the American Academy of Neurology and American Clinical Neurophysiology Society's (AAN/ACNS) paper "Assessment of Digital EEG, Quantitative EEG, and EEG Brain Mapping," edited by Dr. Marc Nuwer.(1) It is the opinion of this committee, supported by the leadership of the Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) and the Society for the Study of Neuronal Regulation (SSNR), that the AAN/ACNS report is biased and contains factual errors. This committee, as a body representing AAPB and SSNR, is concerned about the accuracy of the report, its scope, and the damage that it may cause in the health care and science fields. The AAN/ACNS conclusions, as they are currently written, should not be considered the definitive opinion on digital EEG.