title: [Incidence of electroencephalographic findings in children with stuttering compared to healthy children of the same age].
abstract: Results obtained in a single encephalography examination of 79 stuttering and 143 healthy children, both 7 to 10 years old, were compared. While the difference in the frequency between the two groups with respect to focal findings without peak potentials and a focal and generalised tendency to attacks could not be substantiated, 29.1 per cent of all children in the group of stutterers showed a background activity that was too slow for their age. This finding is interpreted as an expression of delayed development which, because of a psychic compensation capacity not corresponding to the age of the test person, offers a favourable basic condition for the development of stuttering. The danger of a misinterpretation of electroencephalographic findings obtained from specific study groups without comparison with a normal population is pointed out.
mesh_terms: D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis; D002648:Child; D004569:Electroencephalography; D004828:Epilepsies, Partial / Q000175:diagnosis; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019965:Neurocognitive Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013342:Stuttering / Q000175:diagnosis*
vernacular_title: Untersuchungen zur Häufigkeit elektronenzephalographischer Befunde bei Kindern mit Stottern im Vergleich zu gesunden Gleichaltrigen.