EEG-Untersuchungen an Kindern mit Verhaltensst�rungen

✍ Scribed by Groh, Ch. ;Rosenmayr, F.

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1968
• Weight: 836 KB
• Volume: 104
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-2917
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00476246

✦ Synopsis

During a 2 year period, some 261 children with behaviour disorders were admitted to the Heilpaedagogie Department of the Paediatric Clinic of the University of Vienna for diagnosis, observation and treatment. One or more EEG recordings were undertaken with the view to detect a possible correlation between the EEG patterns and the infantile behaviour disorder.

The following conclusions were reached:

1. An abnormal EEG pattern was detected more often in children with behaviour disorders although 50% were normal or borderline cases.

2. A definite correlation between the recorded pattern and the behaviour disorder was not observed in the EEG.

3. Paroxysmal pathological EEG tracings were infrequently detected in children with enuresis and enkopresis or in those unhappily described as suffering from "masked epilepsy".

4. Behaviour disorders of the epileptic type appear to be rare, are readily spotted from the patient's previous history and may be confirmed by the EEG.

5. Clinically suspected organic lesions of the brain (syndromes of minimal brain injury) may neither be confirmed or refuted by EEG investigations.