RESULTS OF REPETITION OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY IN ADULT EPILEPTICS

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Abstract
Electroencephalography was repeated during nonconvulsive periods after an interval of 5 to 7 yrs. on 100 adults with idiopathic epilepsy and 40 adults with symptomatic epilepsy. Although the incidence of abnormality in brain waves was somewhat less in the symptomatic than in the iodiopathic group, the agreement be- tween initial and final recording was somewhat closer in the former group than in the latter group. For 97.5% of the former group, the repeated recordings were either the same as, or worse than, the initial recordings; for the latter group, the corresponding percentage was 95%. It is concluded that the electroencephalograms of adults under unchanging therapy are highly reliable.

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