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The use of the EEG in clinical psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

P. C. W. Bowie ,
A. Y. Beaini  and
A. A. da Costa
P. C. W. Bowie
Affiliation:
High Royds Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
A. Y. Beaini
Affiliation:
Scalebor Park Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, University of Leeds
A. A. da Costa
Affiliation:
Department of Neurophysiology, St James's Hospital, Leeds 9
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The electroencephalogram (EEG) is widely reported to be of limited value in psychiatry. This is particularly so with regard to the neuroses and functional psychoses. The value of the EEG in organic states is not much better, especially since the advent of computerised tomography (CT). However, it should be noted that the former gives a functional and the latter a structural assessment of cerebral disturbance.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 8 , August 1988 , pp. 328 - 330
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