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Brief amnestic effects of spike-wave discharges

From the Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine of City University of New York, and the Department of Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, N.Y.

SUMMARYFive children with diagnoses of generalized epilepsy were examined for the effect of spike-wave discharges upon the ability to recall a visual stimulus. Recall was impaired when the discharge succeeded the presentation of the stimulus by up to four seconds. Impairment of recall was found to be a function of both the time interval between presentation of the stimulus and the onset of the discharge and also of the length of the discharge itself.

Dr. Martin Geller's address is Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Hospital Services, City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, 79-01 Broadway, Elmhurst, N.Y. 11373.

This work was supported in part by grant NB-05221 and special fellowship award 1 F10 NS02232-01 (Dr. Anne Geller) from the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Blindness.

Submitted for publication Jan. 12, 1970; accepted Feb. 16, 1970.

The authors would like to thank Dr. Nadji Gourdji for evaluating the records and Mrs. Edith Fox, EEG technician. They also wish to thank Dr. Nicholas Christoff and Dr. Murray Jarvik for their assistance in preparing the manuscript.