ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC EVALUATION OF PRIMARY BEHAVIOR DISORDERS IN CHILDREN

Abstract

In a number of reports it has been shown that there is a significant preponderance of the "too slow" type of electroencephalogram for children with disturbances diagnosed as primary behavior disorders. Jasper, Solomon and Bradley,¹ the first to report this observation, discovered that of a sample of 71 children, 73 per cent showed slow abnormalities. The finding has been repeatedly confirmed by a large number of investigators.² From this observation it appears that when a relatively new yardstick, the electroencephalogram, is applied, two forms of the disturbance appear: primary behavior disorders associated with a normal electroencephalogram, and primary behavior disorders associated with an abnormal electroencephalogram, the number of children with the latter at least equaling, and probably exceeding, the number with the former. Records which are of the "too slow" type are frequently associated with epilepsy and are broadly related to psychomotor seizures.³ It can be argued