154396 20250318141255.0 pmc:PMC8121213 pmc 10.1177/1550059420954054 doi pmid:32975150 pmid 0009-9155 ISSN 1550-0594 ISSN 2169-5202 ISSN altmetric:91214460 altmetric DZNE-2021-00249 English 610 Campanella, Salvatore 0 Special Report on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Clinical EEG and Research and Consensus Recommendations for the Safe Use of EEG. London 2021 Sage article DRIVER Output Types/Journal article DataCite Journal Article journal journal PUB:(DE-HGF)16 1742303534_23995 PUB:(DE-HGF) Editorial ARTICLE BibTeX JOURNAL_ARTICLE ORCID Journal Article 0 EndNote ISSN 2169-5202 not unique: **3 hits**. The global COVID-19 pandemic has affected the economy, daily life, and mental/physical health. The latter includes the use of electroencephalography (EEG) in clinical practice and research. We report a survey of the impact of COVID-19 on the use of clinical EEG in practice and research in several countries, and the recommendations of an international panel of experts for the safe application of EEG during and after this pandemic.Fifteen clinicians from 8 different countries and 25 researchers from 13 different countries reported the impact of COVID-19 on their EEG activities, the procedures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and precautions planned or already implemented during the reopening of EEG activities.Of the 15 clinical centers responding, 11 reported a total stoppage of all EEG activities, while 4 reduced the number of tests per day. In research settings, all 25 laboratories reported a complete stoppage of activity, with 7 laboratories reopening to some extent since initial closure. In both settings, recommended precautions for restarting or continuing EEG recording included strict hygienic rules, social distance, and assessment for infection symptoms among staff and patients/participants.The COVID-19 pandemic interfered with the use of EEG recordings in clinical practice and even more in clinical research. We suggest updated best practices to allow safe EEG recordings in both research and clinical settings. The continued use of EEG is important in those with psychiatric diseases, particularly in times of social alarm such as the COVID-19 pandemic. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353 POF4-353 POF IV 0 Dataset connected to CrossRef, PubMed, , Journals: pub.dzne.de COVID-19 Other event-related oscillations (EROs) Other event-related potentials (ERPs) Other psychiatry Other quantitative EEG (qEEG) Other resting state electroencephalography (rsEEG) Other Brain: physiopathology MeSH Brain Mapping: methods MeSH COVID-19: physiopathology MeSH COVID-19: virology MeSH Consensus MeSH Electroencephalography: adverse effects MeSH Electroencephalography: methods MeSH Humans MeSH Mental Disorders: physiopathology MeSH SARS-CoV-2: pathogenicity MeSH Arikan, Kemal 1 Babiloni, Claudio 2 Balconi, Michela 3 Bertollo, Maurizio 4 Betti, Viviana 5 Bianchi, Luigi 6 Brunovsky, Martin 7 Buttinelli, Carla 8 Comani, Silvia 9 Di Lorenzo, Giorgio 10 Dumalin, Daniel 11 Escera, Carles 12 Fallgatter, Andreas P:(DE-2719)2811701 13 dzne Fisher, Derek 14 Giordano, Giulia Maria 15 Guntekin, Bahar 16 Imperatori, Claudio 17 Ishii, Ryouhei 18 Kajosch, Hendrik 19 Kiang, Michael 20 López-Caneda, Eduardo 21 Missonnier, Pascal 22 Mucci, Armida 23 Olbrich, Sebastian 24 Otte, Georges 25 Perrottelli, Andrea 26 Pizzuti, Alessandra 27 Pinal, Diego 28 Salisbury, Dean 29 Tang, Yingying 30 Tisei, Paolo 31 Wang, Jijun 32 Winkler, Istvan 33 Yuan, Jiajin 34 Pogarell, Oliver 35 10.1177/1550059420954054 Vol. 52, no. 1, p. 3 - 28 PERI:(DE-600)2647038-X 1 3 - 28 Clinical EEG and neuroscience 52 2021 2169-5202 http://pub.dzne.de/record/154396/files/DZNE-2021-00249_Restricted.pdf http://pub.dzne.de/record/154396/files/DZNE-2021-00249_Restricted.pdf?subformat=pdfa pdfa VDB oai:pub.dzne.de:154396 Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen I:(DE-588)1065079516 DZNE 13 P:(DE-2719)2811701 DE-HGF Gesundheit Neurodegenerative Diseases G:(DE-HGF)POF4-350 G:(DE-HGF)POF4-353 G:(DE-HGF)POF4 G:(DE-HGF)POF4-300 G:(DE-HGF)POF Clinical and Health Care Research 0 DE-HGF Programmungebundene Forschung ohne Programm G:(DE-HGF)POF4-890 G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899 G:(DE-HGF)POF4 G:(DE-HGF)POF4-800 G:(DE-HGF)POF ohne Topic 0 2021 DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)0160 StatID Essential Science Indicators 2021-01-30 WoS StatID:(DE-HGF)0113 StatID Science Citation Index Expanded 2021-01-30 National-Konsortium StatID:(DE-HGF)0430 StatID 2022-11-22 ger DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)0300 StatID Medline 2022-11-22 DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)0199 StatID Clarivate Analytics Master Journal List 2022-11-22 DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)0150 StatID Web of Science Core Collection 2022-11-22 DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)1110 StatID Current Contents - Clinical Medicine 2022-11-22 DBCoverage StatID:(DE-HGF)0200 StatID SCOPUS 2022-11-22 JCR StatID:(DE-HGF)0100 StatID CLIN EEG NEUROSCI : 2021 2022-11-22 IF < 5 StatID:(DE-HGF)9900 StatID 2022-11-22 I:(DE-2719)1240005 ICRU Core ICRU 0 journal VDB I:(DE-2719)1240005 UNRESTRICTED