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Psychosomatic Medicine 4:134-139 (1942)
© 1942 American Psychosomatic Society

Relation Between the Electrical Activity of the Cortex and the Personality in Adolescent Boys

J. ROSWELL GALLAGHER M.D.1, ERNA L. GIBBS 2, and FREDERIC A. GIBBS M.D.3

1 Department of Health, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
2 Neurological Unit of the Boston City Hospital
3 Department of Neurology of Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Two hundred fourteen- and fifteen-year-old boys were studied in order to see what relation exists between the electrical activity of the cortex and deviations from the norm for personality. Personalities were classified as poor, average and good.

As in clinical cases, there was no one-to-one relationship between the electrical activity of the cortex and the individual's behavior and no rigid relationship could be demonstrated between personality and the electrical activity of the cortex. Nevertheless, if the electrical activity of the cortex falls within certain normal limits, the chances that the personality will be normal are increased; if it departs widely from the norm, the chances that the personality will be either poor or good are increased. The deviations from the norm encountered in the electroencephalograms of boys with poor and with good personalities are in many cases identical, but in general cortical activity which is unusually slow is likely to be associated with poor personality and cortical activity which is unusually fast with good personality.






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