[Structural organization of the bioelectrical activity of the brain in neurotic children].

Using the method of computerized primary and factorial analysis of the EEGs in children with various neurotic disturbances, the authors obtained integral age-related characteristics, both common and specific, typical of these patients. The peculiarities of the age-specific pattern of integral characteristics of the EEG indicate that in patients aged 9-12 years the process of a diffuse decrease of the amplitude of the cortical rhythms was inhibited and that the period of the maximum intensity of theta-rhythm in the anterior central portions was displaced from the age 9-10 years to the age of 11-12 years. These disorders were most prominent in children with vegetative emotional disturbances.