J Clin Neurophysiol
Child Neuropsychiatry Unit, Santa Chiara Hospital, Trento, Italy.
Published: November 1997
It is known that hand tapping during electroencephalography (EEG) recording evokes centrotemporal spikes in some 4- to 12-year-old children. This phenomenon occurs in both healthy and epileptic children. The same children were reported to show giant middle-long latency evoked potentials (MLSEPs). To study the relationship between tactile evoked spikes (TES) and MLSEPs, we performed a neurophysiologic investigation in 25 children with TES and in 25 children without any EEG abnormality. Such an investigation included a MLSEP study after both electrical and tactile stimulation with simultaneous recording of digital EEG. MLSEPs consistently showed three negative (NI, NII, NIII) and two positive (PI, PII) peaks. Children with TES had MLSEPs of enlarged amplitude. The analysis of MLSEPs and TES characteristics led us to the conclusion that they are the same neurophysiologic event, with NII being the evoked spike and NIII the following slow-wave.
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