Abstract
Although the B-Mitten EEG wave form was described more than 60 years ago, it failed to attract significant attention from within either psychiatry or clinical neurology. There are three basic reasons for this. First, like many other controversial paroxysmal discharges described over the years, the Mitten wave form failed to display a clear relationship to neurological disease. Second, the behavioral correlates which came to be postulated for this EEG finding were of insufficient specificity for use in psychiatric diagnoses. Third, the B-Mitten pattern can only be recorded with a monopolar referential montage during relatively deep sleep stages. Most EEG laboratories do not record long enough to reach the sleep stages much beyond drowsiness and stages one and two.
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Boutros, N.N. (2013). Psychiatric Correlates of the B-Mitten EEG Pattern. In: Standard EEG: A Research Roadmap for Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04444-6_16
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