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EEGs in Chronic Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

M. H. Abenson
M. H. Abenson*
Affiliation:
Sefton General Hospital, Liverpool; now Consultant Psychiatrist, Kaplan Hospital, Rehovoth, Israel
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Abnormalities in the EEG of schizophrenics were first described by Lemere (1936) who found schizophrenic EEGs had poor alpha waves. Earlier workers were more interested in frequency abnormalities and Davis (1941) found, from study of the frequencies, the more unstable the EEG in schizophrenia the more unstable the behaviour. This concept is well established and has been confirmed by Brazier (1962) and other workers. However, the study of the different frequencies has shed little or no light upon the aetiology of schizophrenia.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 116 , Issue 533 , April 1970 , pp. 421 - 425
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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