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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 126, No. 7

Articles | January 01, 1970

Correlation of Psychiatric Diagnoses and EEG Findings: A Double-Blind Study of 184 Hospitalized Children

EDWARD R. RITVO; EDWARD M. ORNITZ; RICHARD D. WALTER; JOHN HANLEY

Am J Psychiatry 1970;126:988-996.

Assistant professors of psychiatry, division of child psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

Associate professor of medicine, division of neurology, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

Assistant professor of psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Institute, UCLA Center for the Health Sciences, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024

1970, American Psychiatric Association

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Clinical and EEG data were independently reevaluated for 184 children hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. No significant correlations were noted between clinical diagnoses and EEG findings. A uniform incidence (about 35 percent) of abnormal tracings was noted, irrespective of the clinical diagnoses, in children with specific CNS pathology or histories of conditions known to be associated with organic brain dysfunction. The necessity for obtaining more than one EEG examination and for recording from sleep was demonstrated.

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