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The utility of EEG in psychiatry and aggression

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The apparently dismal performance of routine electroencephalogram (EEG) in psychiatry reported by Stone & Moran (Psychiatric Bulletin, May 2003, 27, 171-172) 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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