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Subject: EEG interpretation
Category: Health > Conditions and Diseases
Asked by: tigrc8-ga
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Posted: 03 Mar 2005 09:01 PST
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Question ID: 484040

I have an EEG report that lists one of the findings as "cortical
irritability".  What IS cortical irritability, and what effect does it
have?

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Subject: Re: EEG interpretation
From: jr2000-ga on 04 Mar 2005 21:43 PST

You don't mention whether you were having any symptoms that
necessitated the EEG.  Cortical irritability usually refers to some
sort of seizure-like activity showing up in the EEG test.  A person
may or may not actually be having seizures to have cortical
irritability on EEG.

JR

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