DELINQUENCY AND THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH

WARREN T. BROWN and CHARLES I. SOLOMONAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98, Number 4

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.98.4.499

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1. Twenty boys committed to a state training school for delinquents were studied by the electroencephalographic method.

2. Seventeen of these twenty have yielded abnormal records.

3. Of the seventeen abnormal records three suggested petit mal epilepsy, three showed irregularly abnormal patterns, and eleven showed a slow square-topped wave formation which we have called psychomotor-like.

4. Some favorable results have been achieved in the treatment of a few of these patients with dilantin.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 98 • Number 4 • January 1942

Pages: 499 - 503

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Published in print: January 1942

Published online: 1 April 2006

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WARREN T. BROWN

The Department of Psychiatry and the Laboratory of Electroencephalography, Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut School for Boys.

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CHARLES I. SOLOMON

The Department of Psychiatry and the Laboratory of Electroencephalography, Yale University School of Medicine and the Connecticut School for Boys.

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DELINQUENCY AND THE ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH

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