CLINICAL AND ENCEPHALOGRAPHIC CHANGES AT LENNOX–GASTAUT SYNDROME

Clinical and electro-encephalographic studies of prisoners charged with murder.

During the past ten years a number of papers* have been published dealing with the relationship between antisocial behaviour and electro-encephalographic abnormality. The subjects of these enquiries have ranged in degree of behavioural instability from truants to aggressive recidivists in prison, and in ages from childhood to the late forties. With one exception (Gibbs and others, 1945), the re...

[Clinical/encephalographic syndrome of dopamine deficiency in patients with depressed consciousness after severe brain injury].

OBJECTIVE To determine electroencephalographic signs of dopamine deficiency syndrome during the recovery after severe brain injury (SBI). MATERIAL AND METHODS We studied 35 patients with SBI (23 men and 12 women, mean age 29 ± 13 years). RESULTS AND CONCLUSION We identified a set of neurological symptoms (increased muscular tone of extrapyramidal type, rest tremor, autonomic disorders, whic...

Pneumo-encephalographic and computerized axial tomography scan changes in affective disorder.

CLINICAL SCIENCES Can Police Car Colored Flash Light Induce Encephalographic Discharges and Seizures?

Aim. To ex plore the epileptogenic po ten tial of a newly in tro duced po lice car flash light de vice (930 Heliobe Lightbar). Methods. A 930 Heliobe Lightbar was in stalled in the EEG lab o ra tory. Thirty pa tients with known ep i lepsy, 30 oth er wise healthy sub jects with chronic head ache, and 15 healthy vol un teers were ex am ined. All the sub jects signed an in formed con sent and un d...

Electro-encephalographic Studies of Psychopathic Personalities.

AN abnormal personality is one which deviates from its appropriate personality norm. Psychopathic personalities constitute a subgroup of abnormalpersonali-ties. Schneider (quoted by Kahn, 1931) has defined psychopathic personalities as those abnormal personalities who suffer from their abnormality or from whose abnormality society suffers. This definition points to a cleavage within the group w...