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The utility of EEG in psychiatry and aggression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dave Hambridge
Dave Hambridge*
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 27 , Issue 11 , November 2003 , pp. 437
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The apparently dismal performance of routine electroencephalogram (EEG) in psychiatry reported by Stone & Moran () needs further qualifying.

First, how many of the requests were made by trainees without consultant or responsible medical officer approval?

Second, the ‘catch rate’ for other physical investigations in psychiatry is not high but obviously vital for the individual patient.

Third, how many of the 68 ‘non-diagnostic EEGs’ found temporal lobe dysfunction and were the patients further evaluated to exclude temporal lobe epilepsy?

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