The limited usefulness of nasopharyngeal EEG recording in psychiatric patients
Abstract
The authors retrospectively studied 150 psychiatric inpatients, 96 of whom had had nasopharyngeal EEGs and 54 of whom had had regular EEGs. The nasopharyngeal recordings did not reveal significantly more epileptiform abnormalities than did the regular EEG in patients with suspected seizures.
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