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Multi-electrode Array Recordings of Human Epileptic Postoperative Cortical Tissue
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An Auditory Representation of ECT-Induced Seizures
Conrad M. Swartz1, Richard Abrams
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois, and the North Chicago V.A. Medical Center, North Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Convulsive Therapy
|January 1, 1986
Abstract:
Seizure monitoring using an auditory representation of the electroencephalogram (EEG) was tested in 82 consecutive electroconvulsive treatments (ECTs). It was found to have high interrater and intrarater reliability and high validity against the paper EEG standard.
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