CNS Response, Inc. Provides Review of Poster Session Delivered at the American Psychiatric Association 161st Annu... ( Preliminary Analysis of rEEG(R) Gui...)

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CNS Response, Inc. Provides Review of Poster Session Delivered at the American Psychiatric Association 161st Annual Meeting

Date:5/22/2008

Preliminary Analysis of rEEG(R) Guided Medication Study Demonstrates an

Improvement in Depression and Eating Disorder Symptoms

COSTA MESA, Calif., May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CNS Response, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: CNSO) reported today the results of a study presented at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 161st Annual Meeting by Dr. James Greenblatt, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Walden Behavioral Care Inpatient Psychiatry and Eating Disorder Programs. The poster presentation, titled "Referenced-EEG Guided Medication Predictions in Treatment Refractory Eating Disorder Patients," provided a preliminary analysis of a patient-controlled case series studying the use of Referenced-EEG (rEEG(R)) to facilitate the medication selection for patients with eating disorders and comorbid depression.

The study of eight female patients, conducted over up to a four-year period, demonstrated that rEEG successfully guided physician selection of each patient's medications in the series, leading to a dramatic relief of depression and eating disorder symptoms. Successful rEEG-guided predictions involved medications in the anticonvulsant, antidepressant and stimulant classes, often in combination.

Dr. Greenblatt commented, "Despite the small sample size of this study, the results support the promise of rEEG as an effective tool for determining medication programs for treatment refractory patients with eating disorders and depression. The decrease in depressive symptoms, as well as significant improvement in eating disorders symptoms and weight, for the eight patients in the trial was striking, considering that, prior to the study, each had required either partial hospitalization or inpatient care, as determined by managed behavioral health care reviewers. However, following rEEG medication recommendations, hospitalization days for the patients decreased dramatically. Anorexia nervosa is a potentially fatal illness with significant mortal
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