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By Francoise Mellerio. Price, not given. Pp 494. Masson et Cie, 120 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris 6e, France, 1964.

M. H. Charlton, MD, Reviewer

Arch Neurol. 1965;13(3):335-336.

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The advent of psychotropic and other agents has created new pitfalls and opportunities for clinical electroencephalography: one may cite as examples the precentral fast activity seen with chlordiazepoxide and its analogs, and the paroxysmal discharges evoked by amitryptiline. The author of the present volume is concerned with the effects produced in the EEG by the acute and heavy ingestion of a variety of agents, especially industrial chemicals and medically prescribed drugs.

The limitations and difficulties of such a study are obvious: the difficulty in obtaining an adequate history, the coexistence of electrolyte and other biochemical disturbances, and the nonspecificity of the EEG changes, to name but a few. The author is aware of these objections but claims that in some instances more specific information may be obtained from the EEG, eg, that "periodicity" is found in the records of patients who have taken short- and medium- rather than long-acting barbiturates. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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