ABSTRACT
In the section on electroencephalography (pp. 22-5, above) it was concluded that the EEG should be used with great care, since it is liable to error in interpretation. However, as a classifiying tool it may be more useful than purely clinical data. It was suggested that arguments about ‘epileptic equivalents’ based on the manifestation of an epileptic-like EEG in a patient who has disturbed behaviour at other times in his life can have little logical validity.However, a number of physicians commit themselves to the view that disturbed behaviour can be an epileptic equivalent, and the temporal lobes have been mentioned frequently as being the cerebral location of the epileptic-like discharges. A number of these reports are critically discussed in the section on temporal lobe epilepsy (ch. 7, above).
