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A Pilot Control Study

James T. Wegner, MA; Frederick A. Struve, PhD; Jerry S. Kantor, MD; John M. Kane, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1979;36(5):599-603.

Abstract
• The identification of patients at high risk for the development of tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a major problem in psychopharmacology. We found a possible relationship between the subcortical B-mitten EEG pattern and TD. Twenty-one TD patients were matched on a number of relevant variables with 21 patients without TD. Ninety-five percent of the TD patients had mittens, compared to 33.3% of controls. The results suggest that the mitten dysrhythmia may be a risk factor for the development of TD. Additional findings suggest that among TD patients, mittens are differentially more frequent in younger (93.1%) as opposed to older (0.0%) subjects.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Psychiatry, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, Glen Oaks, NY. Dr Kantor is now in private practice in Princeton, NJ.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 23, 1978.

Reprint requests to Department of Psychiatry, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center, Glen Oaks, NY 11004 (Dr Kane).

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