Psychiatric assessment of healthy children with various EEG patterns

Abstract

Healthy children, 112 girls and 110 boys, aged 5-16 yr, with different types of EEG pattern, were investigated by current child-psychiatric methods. The children were selected in accordance with strict criteria of normality from the pediatric and neurological points of view. To determine whether any clinical correlation with the EEG patterns could be shown, 96 children with some form of EEG deviation and 126 children with normal EEG were recruited. Significant relations emerged between clinical variables and EEG patterns. Normal EEG showed negative correlations with child-psychiatric variables, while deviating EEG patterns were positively correlated. Many of the correlations disappeared in the oldest age group.