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Although continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) systems provide continuous glucose measurements, they are invasive and do not capture early neurophysiological alterations associated with hypoglycemia-related metabolic changes. This study presents a preliminary feasibility investigation of a non-invasive brain\u2013computer interface approach for classifying hypoglycemia versus non-hypoglycemia in individuals with type 1 diabetes using electroencephalography (EEG). The novelty lies in demonstrating EEG-based hypoglycemia detection (binary classification) under data-limited conditions using optimized segmentation and lightweight classifiers. Additionally, EEG characteristics were compared with recordings from five healthy controls to provide a baseline reference for spectral activity patterns. EEG recordings from participants with T1D were synchronized with continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) data and pre-processed using a 0.5-50 Hz band-pass filter. The control group underwent identical EEG pre-processing without CGM synchronization. Reproducible spectral patterns were identified: hypoglycemia was associated with characteristic delta and beta alterations, while changes observed outside hypoglycemia were less consistent and did not support reliable separation within the non-hypoglycemic class. Multiple segmentation strategies and data-efficient machine learning models were evaluated under limited data conditions. Classical classifiers demonstrated promising within-subject performance under severely data-limited conditions, with Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) achieving the best results (accuracy 0.96212, macro-F1 0.96201) for binary classification focused on hypoglycemia detection. Confusion matrix analysis indicated a low rate of clinically relevant misclassifications. 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