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One hundred juvenile delinquents were examined electroencephalographically in order to investigate the incidence and importance of obvious or previously unrecognized temporal lobe epilepsy. This correlation was not found to be significant. Twenty-nine patients were found to have 14 and 6 per second positive spikes. Inquiry also revealed that 13 of the 89 teenagers, for whom a good history could be obtained, had had breath-holding spells in earlier years.
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