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NOUVELLES RECHERCHES ELECTRO‐ENCEPHALOGRAPHIQUES DANS L'ASTHME BRONCHIQUE
Author(s) -
PANZANI R.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.363
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1398-9995
pISSN - 0105-4538
DOI - 10.1111/j.1398-9995.1959.tb02808.x
Subject(s) - asthma , medicine , reticular connective tissue , electroencephalography , depression (economics) , anesthesia , pediatrics , pathology , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics
SUMMARY Two hundred and forty EEG observations bring out this conclusion: in asthma 65 per cent of the observed cases show a disturbed cortical electro genesis leading to the hypothesis of a hyperexcitability or less frequently a hypoexcitability and possibly an actual depression of meso‐diencephalic reticular substance. The first hypothesis was that this major or minor dysfunction of the reticular substance is one of the causes of asthma and not the consequence of an oedema of the brain caused by repeated attacks. Out recent EEG studies would incline in some cases in favour of the latter hypothesis. We have observed in 17 out of 80 regularly followed cases, that minor anomalies in adults and even major anomalies in children have disappeared. Asthma has been practically always allergic in children so we think that the electrical anomalies which have spontaneously disappeared were due to an allergic oedema of the brain.