Abstract
THE electroencephalogram plays an important part in the neurologic evaluation of patients who have suffered head trauma. There is, in general, a correlation between the severity of head trauma and degree of electroencephalographic abnormality subsequently found. When the electroencephalogram is abnormal after a head injury, clinical improvement is usually accompanied by return of cerebral electric activity toward normal. When significant head trauma is associated with a normal electroencephalographic pattern soon after injury, the possibility of serious brain damage is remote. A normal electroencephalogram allows the clinician to feel secure when he is faced with distressing complaints of headache, dizziness, insomnia, . . .
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