Patent ID: 8632750

Claim:
A method for recommending therapy for a patient having a behaviorally diagnosed psychiatric condition, comprising: a) providing a plurality of monopolar or bipolar EEG signals obtained from a patient having a behaviourally diagnosed psychiatric condition; b) extracting a plurality of patient univariate measures from the patient EEG signals, each univariate measure representing a quantitated deviation from a plurality of monopolar or bipolar EEG signals from an asymptomatic normal population; c) using an outcomes database that includes symptomatic profiles for symptomatic individuals who exhibit clinical manifestations of the psychiatric condition with known therapy outcomes, the symptomatic profiles being derived from selected combinations of two or more univariate EEG signals, the outcomes database including symptomatic profiles comprising pre-therapy profiles and post-therapy profiles for the symptomatic individuals; d) deriving one or more patient multivariate EEG descriptors from selected combinations of two or more patient univariate measures to form a patient profile; e) comparing the patient profile to the symptomatic pre-therapy profiles in the outcomes database to identify one or more individuals who have a symptomatic profile similar to the patient profile, and f) generating a report comprising at least one therapy for the patient from among those therapies with known outcomes for the individuals of the symptomatic population who have a symptomatic profile similar to the patient profile, wherein the at least one therapies are selected from the symptomatic post-therapy profiles that deviate less from the asymptomatic normal population than the pre-therapy profiles corresponding to the symptomatic post-therapy profiles.