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Summary and Conclusions

  1. 1.

    The clinical possibilities of electroencephalography have yet to be developed except in certain cases of epilepsy where it already is of some diagnostic and localizing assistance. The changes in brain tumor or abscess are nonspecific but of some possible localizing value provided a tumor has already been diagnosed. The changes in the electroencephalogram in paresis, mental deficiency, posttraumatic syndromes, or any other organic cerebral involvement seem to be present only after the damage is so severe as to be obvious clinically.

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    The use of electroencephalography as an instrument of neurophysiological investigation has tremendous potentialities. The added light that it has thrown on the physiopathology of epilepsy will undoubtedly lead to improved treatment in this condition. A new approach to the problem of the so-called functional psychoses has been opened up and a theory as to the physiopathology of schizophrenia and the manic-depressive psychoses is advanced on the basis of established electroencephalographic findings.

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    Electroencephalography will probably be of greater value as a research agent than as a direct diagnostic instrument.

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This investigation was carried out at the Eastern State Hospital, Medical Lake, Wash., and the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. It was financed by a grant from the Committee on Scientific Research of the American Medical Association and a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Lemere, F. Electroencephalography. Psych Quar 13, 5–15 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01579221

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