[Bioelectric activity of the brain in hypertoxic forms of meningococcal infection in children].

Children with the generalized form of meningococcal infection aggravated by infectious-toxic shock and brain oedema showed a correlation between symptoms of central nervous system dysfunction and diffuse disturbances of cerebral bioelectrical activity combined with the attenuation of the intercentral relationships of the cortical zones which was most marked in the anterior portions of the left hemisphere. With progressive improvement of the patient, the links between the lobular and temporal zones, especially in the right hemisphere, became stronger which seems to indicate the strengthening of the cortical influence on the limbic diencephalic structures of the brain which activates the child's protective and adaptive reactions.