Electrophysiological Changes in Patient with Pediatric Mental Disorders

Abstract

Many studies have shown that EEG changes can be found in children with mental disorders, those EEG changes can be used to confirm the diagnose, and recent studies have showed that it can be used to suggest a treatment protocol and predict the response to the treatment. The current study was done to assess the correlation between electrophysiological changes using EEG and pediatric mental disorders namely autism spectrum disorder, ADHD and primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis. This cross-sectional study enrolled 100 children with pediatric mental disorders of both sex (30 autism spectrum disorder, 30 ADHD, 40 primary monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis) they were recruited consecutively from those under regular follow up during the period from September 2019 to July 2021 at Child Psychiatry Clinic, Children’s hospital, Ain Shams University who their care giver agreed to participate in our study. For all the enrolled children we collected full history, clinical examination, psychometric assessment (specific scales for the disorder CARS for ASD, Conner’s rating scale for ADHD, IQ assessment, DSM-V diagnostic criteria for each disorder) and EEG test. EEG epileptogenic changes were found in 5 children out of 100 children diagnosed with pediatric mental disorders (3