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Fourteen- and Six-per-Second Positive SpikesIn Psychiatric Disorders
JOYCE G. SMALL, MD;
IVER F. SMALL, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;11(6):645-650.
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There has been considerable interest expressed in the current literature regarding the relationships of certain EEG findings to behavioral and psychic phenomena. A large number of these studies have described an important association of 14- and 6-per second positive spikes with some neuropsychiatric disorders. The 14 and 6 EEG pattern has been reported by various authors to appear in a significant proportion of children and young adults with disturbed behavior characterized clinically by poor impulse control, unpredictable violence, and homocidal or suicidal assault.3,12,13,17 Also cited as clinical correlates of 14- and 6-per second spikes are episodic epileptiform and autonomic dysfunctions, head injuries, some types of mental deficiency, functional psychoses, and other syndromes.1,4-8,10,11,14,15 However, for psychiatrists the interest in this subject is upon the meaning of these EEG patterns when they are encountered in psychiatric patients and whether the 14 and
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Author Affiliations
ST. LOUIS
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Dr. J. Small and Dr. I. Small).
Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine.
This research was conducted at the Malcolm Bliss Mental Health Center.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 22, 1964.
This investigation was supported in part by Public Health Service research grant No. MH 5804 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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