title: Manic depressive illness and EEG abnormalities.
abstract: In evaluating 40 manic-depressive (bipolar) patients who had clinical electroencephalograms, there was a significant relationship between abnormal EEG findings and a negative family history for affective disorder when a comparison was made between patients with various classes of family history.
mesh_terms: D001714:Bipolar Disorder / Q000235:genetics / Q000503:physiopathology*; D004569:Electroencephalography; D006801:Humans