Mobile Quantitative EEG Assessment and Children’s Preoperative Anxiety: a Psychometric and Feasibility Study

New technologies in mobile, wireless quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) allow for simple and non-invasive continuous monitoring of brain activity that may complement and enhance existing assessment tools that track preoperative anxiety in the surgical setting. Although individual differences in continuously monitored frontal brain electrical activity (EEG) are associated with anxiety in traditional laboratory settings, this relation has …