Bioelectric activity of childish brain in case of antenatal irradiation caused by Chernobyl accident

Formation of bioelectric activity of the brain was studied in two hundred and fifty children aged 6-7 and 10-12 yrs irradiated prenatally because of Chernobyl accident. The control group consisted of two hundred and fifty children the same age from 'clean' areas of Belarus. The examination included the visual and the computerized analyses of their EEGs as well as the psychiatric examination and the intellectual level assessment. Variants of the age norms and the synchronized borderline EEG were revealed in both groups of the children aged 6-7 yrs. A relevant decrease of the σ and Θ activities levels was registered in the children aged 10-12 yrs. In the both groups. The slow type of EEG in most cases was transformed into the age norm and the synchronized type of EEG. The bioelectric activity was not found to correlate with the dosimetric data. So, the changes of the bioelectric activity revealed showed a distinct age dependency and their frequency in the children exposed to antenatal irradiation did not differ significantly from that in the control group. (authors)