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An EEG Study of Delinquent and Nondelinquent Adolescents
JERRY M. WIENER, MD;
JAMES G. DELANO, MD;
DONALD W. KLASS, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;15(2):144-150.
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ASSOCIATION between behavior disturbances, delinquency, or even murder and various electroencephalographic patterns has been reported. Earlier investigations dealt mainly with slow activity in the EEG,1-7 but more recently attention has been directed chiefly to the 14 and 6/sec positive-spike pattern.8-19 Attempts to correlate derangements of personality with EEG findings have not provided practical assistance in the diagnosis of psychiatric problems, in contrast to the great value of the EEG in the assessment of the presence or absence of some organic diseases of the brain.
The results of various investigations dealing with the slow EEG activity have been inconsistent. Some authors1-5 found a significant difference in the amount of such activity between those subjects having behavior disorders and those who did not, while other authors7,20,21 found no significant differences.
Similarly, although a qualitative change in the 14 and 6/sec
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Author Affiliations
ROCHESTER, MINN
From the Section of Psychiatry (Dr. Delano) and the Section of Physiology (Dr. Klass), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, and the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, University of Minnesota (Dr. Wiener), Rochester. Dr. Wiener is now at St. Luke's Hospital, New York.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 27, 1966.
Reprint requests to Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, Minn 55901.
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