A new prescription for personalized medicine for psychiatry
Physicians have long sought some sort of objective, patient-based physiology data — like the x-rays, EKG or blood tests used in general medicine — to assist them in prescribing psychotropic medications. Founded by psychiatrists, CNS Response has developed biomarkers which describe the probable effectiveness of specific drugs based on the unique electrical signature of a patient’s brain. These markers aren’t used to diagnose, but to provide informative, patient-specific information to physicians treating mental illnesses.
Some call it personalized medicine. We call it Referenced-EEG®, a patented process which has helped thousands of patients. In a series of clinical trials on patients who suffered for years without responding to treatment, physicians guided over 75 percent of them to medications that worked. Often the right medication was a combination of two medications. And sometimes, the right answer was no medication at all. rEEG® provides physicians with objective clinical data to support treatment based on patient physiology.
Physicians using rEEG frequently achieve superior efficacy, often in less time and with fewer medications.
The CNS Response medication prediction process can be very helpful for treatment resistant patients. It requires that a QEEG (brainmap) be done off all medications for a certain time period dependent upon the medication type. The process is to see one of our psychiatrists for a consultation and to help determine whether it is possible and how to safely go off the medications. The next step is to conduct the QEEG which is sent to CNS Response. They develop a detailed report for the psychiatrist with specific medication recommendations. The cost of the CNS Response QEEG is $600 Unfortunately, this service is not typically reimbursed by insurance carriers.
Additional information about rEEG can be found at www.cnsresponse.com.