Korean Journal of Biological Psychiatry

The object of the study is to apply a chaotic signal analysis method to the EEG research, especially in the aspect of neuropsychiatry, and to get some inspection of the chaotic phenomena according to the vrain sites and subjects. We have acquired 21 channel EEG data and one EOG according to the intemational 10.20 system and calculated the correlation dimension. The subject groups are schizophrenics, bipolar disorder, major depression and normal control, They were all awake and eye-closed. We have found no distinctive features from our experiments except temporal regions have slightly higher correlation dimension. There is also no specific distinctions between groups. We conjecture that these results are mainly because the subjects were not well controlled. EEG dimension may change in accordance with to the age, sex, medication and the time data were selected to calculate. We have also considered some conditions for a better and more objective research of chaotic analysis to EEG research. Better conditioning and standardizing the calculation of correlation dimension is necessary for the application of the chaotic analysis to neuropsychiatry.

Keywords Nonlinear;Chaos theory;Corrlation dimension;EEG.