1043-3155 Pediatr Neurol Briefs pedneurbriefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs Pediatric Neurology Briefs Pediatr Neurol Briefs 2166-6482 1043-3155 2166-3155 Pediatric Neurology Briefs Publishers Chicago, IL, USA PNB-6-32 10.15844/pedneurbriefs-6-4-10 Attention Deficit Disorders Neurology Pediatrics Nervous System Diseases Child Development Brain Diseases Neurosurgery Child Infant Attention Deficit and EEG Analysis http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7931 Millichap J. Gordon MD 1 2 * Division of Neurology, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL Departments of Pediatrics and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL Correspondence: Dr. J. Gordon Millichap, E-mail: jgmillichap@northwestern.edu 04 1992 01 07 2016 6 4 32 32 Copyright: © 1992 The Author(s) 1992 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Quantitative analysis of EEG in boys with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder: controlled study with clinical implications

Computerized power spectral analysis (PSA), permitting topographic representation and statistical analysis of EEG, of 25 right-handed males, 9-12 years of age with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was used in studies from the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics (Neurology) and Computing Center, University of Tennessee and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Knoxville, TN.

 Power Spectral Analysis Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Dysphonetic Disorder

Computerized power spectral analysis (PSA), permitting topographic representation and statistical analysis of EEG, of 25 right-handed males, 9-12 years of age with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder was used in studies from the Departments of Psychology, Pediatrics (Neurology) and Computing Center, University of Tennessee and East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Knoxville, TN. When compared with 27 controls matched for age and grade level, children with ADHD had increased theta (4.75 Hz) and decreased beta 1 (12.75-21 Hz). The differences were less when the patients were at rest during visual fixation and greater when tested for reading and drawing skills. The increased theta activity was found in the frontal and central locations and decreased beta in posterior and temporal locations. These differences were enhanced in patients with ADHD during the drawing task, with a difference of more than 20% between groups (P<.01) in premotor and prefrontal regions. The study provided 80% predictability for ADHD group membership and 74% for membership in the control group. [1]

COMMENT. In a previous study [2] PSA was used successfully to differentiate the Boder subgroups of dyslexic children. An increase of theta in the left temporal region was greater for those with dyseidetic dyslexic disorder as compared with the dysphonetic disorder. The present study shows that quantitative EEG may help to characterize the attentive difficulties in children with ADHD and provide more objective and physiologically based data than are currently available from subjective questionnaires or rating scales.

 Mann CA Lubar CF Zimmerman AW Miller CA Muenchen RA Quantitative analysis of EEG in boys with attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder: controlled study with clinical implications Pediatr Neurol 1992 Jan-Feb 8 1 30 36 10.1016/0887-8994(92)90049-5 1558573 Flynn JM Deering WM Subtypes of dyslexia: investigation of Boder’s system using quantitative neurophysiology Dev Med Child Neurol 1989 Apr 31 2 215 223 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1989.tb03981.x 2737374