A method and system for utilizing neurophysiologic information obtained by
techniques such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG), electrode
recordings, MRI in appropriately matching patients with therapeutic
entities is disclosed. The present invention enables utilization of
neurophysiologic information, notwithstanding its weak correlation with
extant diagnostic schemes for mental disorders, for safer and expeditious
treatment for mental disorders, discovering new applications for
therapeutic entities, improved testing of candidate therapeutic entities,
inferring the presence or absence of a desirable response to a treatment,
and deducing the mode of action of one or more therapeutic entities. In
particular, methods for effectively comparing neurophysiologic
information relative to a reference set are disclosed along with
database-based tools for deducing therapeutic entity actions on
particular patients such that these tools are readily accessible to
remote users.