A Study of Cerebral Dysfunction by EEG in Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis

Abstract

An electroencephalographic study was carried out on 54 children with idiopathic scoliosis, aged from 3 to 17 years and 20 normal development children aged from 7 to 16 years as controls. The results were as follows.
1) Abnormal EEG was found in 25.9per cent of the scoliotic patients.
2) The main EEG abnormalities were high voltage slow wave burst, asymmetry and and spike potentials.
3) Abnormality of EEG of juvenile group (below 9 years) was 1.7 times higher than that of adoslecent group.
4) EEG abnormalities were correlated with the severity of the scoliosis.