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Prognosis in Convulsive Disorders
ROBERT R. J. STROBOS, M.D.
AMA Arch Neurol. 1959;1(2):216-225.
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Introduction
This article is concerned with the prognosis and response to treatment in convulsive disorders. Seizures were classified according to electroencephalographic criteria, to evaluate whether initial electroencephalographic data would be helpful in determining the prognosis. The prognostic implications of various clinical data are considered.
Selection of Patients
It is the policy of the Department of Neurology of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine that eachpatient with a convulsive disorder have an electroencephalographic examination as part of the initial evaluation. Return visits are scheduled at short intervals, and treatment is intensive. Medications are changed if control of seizures is not achieved, so that uncontrolled patients receive a number of drugs. Electroencephalograms are obtained repeatedly to assess the response to treatment. Representative sections of each electroencephalogram are saved; the findings are classified, and the classification is recorded on a punch card.
Selection of patients for the present study was based on
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Author Affiliations
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Department of Neurology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest College.
Footnotes
Received for publication Jan. 6, 1959.
This work was supported by Research Grant M-652 from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
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