Resting EEG Research Articles

The Topographical Distribution of Alpha-activity in the Resting EEG of Endogenous-depressive In-patients with and without Clinical Response to Pharmacotherapy

The Topographical Distribution of Alpha-activity in the Resting EEG of Endogenous-depressive In-patients with and without Clinical Response to Pharmacotherapy

Changes in the Topographical Distribution of Absolute Alpha-power in the Resting EEG of Schizophrenic In-patients under Neuroleptic Medication

Changes in the Topographical Distribution of Absolute Alpha-power in the Resting EEG of Schizophrenic In-patients under Neuroleptic Medication

Digital computer analyzed sleep and resting EEG during haloperidol treatment.

The authors studied the effects of haloperidol on resting and all-night sleep EEGs of chronic schizophrenic patients. There was a decrease in slow waves and an increase in fast activity during resting and sleep EEGs as well as a decrease in the time spent in deep sleep stages during sleep. The findings support the hypothesis that compounds that are most effective with chronic schizophrenic patients have both central inhibitory and stimulating components.

Relation of Eyes-Closed Resting EEG Alpha Activity to Hypnotic Susceptibility

A positive correlation of .70 ( p = .001) was found between a measure of the presence of EEG alpha rhythms during a resting condition and separately gathered scores of hypnotic susceptibility for a sample of 21 Ss. The relationship was similar in the 10 males and the 11 females who comprised the total sample. The finding replicates and extends a similar study by London, Hart, and Leibovitz (1968).

RELATIONSHIPS OF RESTING AUTONOMIC ACTIVITY, MOTOR IMPULSIVITY, AND EEG TRACINGS IN CHILDREN.

Introduction A NUMBER OF investigators in studying continuous recordings of autonomic functioning of humans at rest have reported short-lived bursts of sympathetic-like activity. 2,3,5,9,11,12,15-20 These atypical fluctuations, appearing as periodic and aperiodic deviations from the mean trend of the record, are denoted spontaneous autonomic activity or background activity (BA). Johnson 9 defines this activity as fluctuations of autonomic response in the apparent absence of external stimulation (p 415). Spontaneous autonomic activity has been shown to be a reliable characteristic of the individual over time and across different experimental conditions. There is little or no correlation between BA and absolute levels of physiological functioning, and BA in one system is, in general, not predictive of BA in another. The autonomic functions most extensively studied are heart rate (HR) and skin resistance ( SR). Lacey and Lacey 11 devised an arbitrary method of quantifying BA in these two systems, later