About 45.5% of individuals show EEG paroxysmal abnormalities, mainly in childhood and in females, while in the general population they occur in about 2–8.7% of subjects with a decreasing trend during puberty [ 13 ]; 4–61% of these individuals specifically present interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs), mainly focal, in particular over frontal and temporal areas [ 14 ].
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EEG Features in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Retrospective Analysis in a Cohort of Preschool Children.
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Based on the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s report (2018), in the US, 1 in every 44 children aged 8 years is affected by ASD, with an average ratio 4:1 for male: female and with an increasing trend of prevalence in recent years [ 3 ].
However, abnormal background activity during sleep was associated to developmental delay in 73.5% of the individuals, while normal background activity was related to developmental delay in 54.6% of the cases, with an extremely significant association between the two factors: p = 0.0004. 4.