The Incidence of Eeg Abnormality Among Patients With Mental Disorders of Apparently Nonorganic Origin: A Critical Review

Sleep Disturbances and Epileptiform Activity in a Subpopulation of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): A Literature Review Generating an Hypothesis with Implications for Drug Therapy

“…EEGs have been used to define mental disorders but the results have proved inconclusive (Jasper and Solomon, 1938;Ellingson, 1954;Daveau 1958;Werry et ai., 1972). Jasper et ai.…”

Sleep among Habitually Violent Offenders with Antisocial Personality Disorder

“…In a review among 1,500 psychopaths, the most prominent form of waking EEG abnormality was the presence of the-ta and delta activity [6]. In a study of severely aggressive psychopaths, the abnormal waking EEG activity was localized in the temporal lobes of the cerebral hemispheres.…”

Maturation Defect Electroencephalographic and Psychological Correlation

“…K ennard [1949], d is cusses th e in h e rita n c e o f E E G p a tte r n s in c h ild re n w ith b e h a v io u r d iso rd ers, a n d h e r series c o n siste d o f c h ild re n b etw e e n th e ages five to six te e n . Ellingson [1954], r e p o rtin g on E E G a b n o rm a litie s a m o n g p a tie n ts w ith m e n ta l d iso rd e rs o f a p p a re n tly n o n o rg an ic orig in , su m m a rise s th e th e o rie s p u t fo rw a rd in to th re e b a sic h y p o th e se s. a) M a tu ra tio n a l r e ta r d a tio n h y p o th e s is , w ith special re la tio n to p s y c h o p a th y a n d b e h a v io u r p ro b le m s. H e su g g e sts t h a t a b ra in fu n c tio n a lly r e ta r d e d fo r its age w o u ld b e h a v e sim ila rly electroe n c e p h a lo g ra p h ic a lly . b) A p s y c h o so m a tic h y p o th e sis, w h ere p s y ch ical, p re s u m a b ly c o rtic a l, in flu en ces give rise to a u to n o m ic a n d or e n d o c rin e d is tu rb a n c e s , c) A c o n s titu tio n a l d efe c t h y p o th e sis, b a se d on o rg an ic c e re b ra l disease.…”