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                  <text>Reprinted from Neuro-Psychopharrnacology

EEG AND BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS
OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS*
M.

FINK

Department of Experimental Psychiatry, Hillside Hospital, Glen Oaks,
Long Island, N. Y. (U.S.A.)

Recent studies have presented data supporting a neurophysiologic—adaptive View of
the convulsive therapy process“: 15. This hypothesis holds that the clinical efﬁcacy of
repeated induced convulsions is dependent upon the induction of a persistent alteration in cerebral function, which provides the milieu for changes in the subject’s inter—
action with the environment. In these studies the best index of neurophysiologic
change has been those aspects of cerebral function reﬂected by 8 activity in the
electroencephalogramS—lo.
The efﬁcacy of newer psychopharmaceuticals in altering psychotic behavior
patterns led to the suggestion of a similar hypothesis for the mode of action of these
agents“, and to studies of the relationship and speciﬁcity of altered behavioral patterns
to neurophysiologic change as reﬂected in electroencephalography. This report
summarizes some of the experimental data observed in on—going tests of this hypo—

thesis.

‘

SUBJECTS AND METHODS

We have studied consecutive patients, suffering from depressive psychoses, agitated
and excited schizophrenic states and severe psychoneurotic disorders, referred for
physiodynamic therapies (convulsive, psychotropic drug, insulin coma) in a voluntary,
open—ward, psychiatric hospital. Serial electroencephalograms were taken prior to,
Aided, in part, by grants M-927 and MY—2092, National Institute of Mental Health, National
Institutes of Health, U.S.P.H.S., and Bristol, Wyeth and Smith, Kline and French Laboratories.
*

References p. 446 .

�M. FINK

442

during and after the course of therapy. In addition, at various stages of the treatment
As
done.
convulsive
both
studies
chlorand
were
acute
experimental
program
promazine therapies elicit varying degrees of EEG slow wave activity, these acute
observations have been made in two groups of subjects: those without slow wave
activity, and those with diffuse slow wave (HSD, LSD) or burst and slow wave
(BSD) activity”.

Observations have been made in the EEG laboratory. Following a routine
bipolar EEG recording, an unstructured psychiatric interview was tape—recorded.
Under continuous EEG recording, medication was administered intravenously at a
set rate until EEG or behavioral effects were observed. Following the injection the
interview was repeated and recorded. Periods of EEG recording and interview recording were alternated for the duration of the drug activity.
Behavioral evaluations have been based both on clinical descriptions by the
participants (subject, physician and technician) and analyses of changes in language
patterns12:14. Electroencephalograms were measured for shifts in dominant frequencies, and changes in voltage, modulation, and per cent time of or, {3 and 8 frequency bands.
The psychopharmacologic agents were administered orally for extended periods
in clinical trials, and intravenously in the acute experimental trials (Table I). Dosage
for each compound varied, but in each instance sufﬁcient medication has been given
to achieve clinical behavioral effects.
TABLE I
PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGIC AGENTS STUDIED

(Oral and intravenous)

Chlorpromazine
Prom azine
Triﬂupromazine
Perphenazine
*
Reserpine

Iproniazid
**
Deanola

**

Amobarbital
**
Thiopental

Atropine
Diethazine

Amphetamine
Methamphetamine
Meprobamate

*

**

LSD—2 5b
**
Win—22996
**
J B—3 I 8d

J B-336e

**

Benactyzine

Dimethylaminoethanoll".
b Lysergic acid diethylamide.
0 2-Diethylaminoethyl cyclopentyl (2-thieny1) glycolatel“.
d N—Ethyl—3-piperidy1 benzilatel.
e N-Methy1-3—piperidyl benzilatel.
a

*

Oral only.

H Intravenous only.
OBSERVATIONS

(a) Electroencephalographic

Four broad types of EEG patterns may be identiﬁed according to the characteristics of frequency shift and synchronization‘l:
References

35.

446.

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INVESTIGATONS IN NORMAL HUMAN SUBJECTS

I) Increase in slow wave activity and in synchrony;

Increase in synchrony without frequency shift;
3) Increase in fast wave activity and in synchrony;
4) Desynchronization and frequency irregularity.
Examples of each are seen in Figs. 1—4.
During convulsive therapy, an increase in slow wave activity and synchrony is
manifests. With drug administration similar changes in frequency spectrum and in
synchrony can be observed. Such changes include an augmentation of the slow wave
activity8 or a marked decrease in such activity with desynchronization of frequencies?
.Of the psychopharmaceuticals tested in acute experiments an increase in synchrony With or Without an increase in slow Wave activity has been observed for
chlorpromazine, promazine, and triﬂupromazine. Barbiturates regularly induce an
increase in fast activity With an increase in synchrony, While amphetamine and
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JB-336, and benactyzine.
Refeyences p. 446.

�M. FINK

444

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cent time and voltage of slow wave activity. Decrease in voltage and per cent time of
slow wave activity is seen with LSD-25, benactyzine, Win—2299, JB-3I8, JB-336 and
diethazine5’ 6.

Similar electrographic patterns are noted in chronic oral administration of these
compounds. Chlorpromazine, promazine, high doses of reserpine and occasionally
perphenazine elicit increased synchronization and a shift of frequencies to the 8 range.
Increased synchronization without frequency shift is occasionally observed with
iproniazid. Increased high voltage fast activity is observed with meprobamate and
barbiturates. Oral administration of LSD-25 and benactyzine induces EEG desynchronization with an increase in fast frequencies.
(6)

Behavioral

Initial studies of convulsive therapy noted that behavioral change was dependent
upon the development of synchronous slow wave activitys. Prominent among the
associated behavioral effects were sedation, tranquillization and euphoria in agitated,
depressed subjects, and a decrease in somatization, paranoid ideation, hallucinations
and delusions in schizophrenic and excited subjects. Increasing agitation, paranoid
ideation and panic were observed in less than IO 0/0 of the subjects.
Similar behavioral relationships were prominent with these psychopharmacologic agents. In acute experiments, administration of chlorpromazine, promazine
and triﬂupromazine was associated with increasing sedation, drowsiness, denial and
euphoria, decreasing agitation, panic, excitement and delusional and hallucinatory
activity, and minimization and displacement of symptoms. Sedation, euphoria,
denial and minimization were similarly associated with amobarbital.
Administration of amphetamine and methamphetamine resulted in behavioral
alerting, hypomania, excitement, and increased motor activity. Similar increased
alerting, excitement, tension and panic were observed after benactyzine. In addition to these patterns, illusory sensations and hallucinatory, delusional and
paranoid ideation were observed with diethazine, LSD-25, Win-2299, JB—3I8, and

J 13-336-

References

{3.

446.

�INVESTIGATIONS IN NORMAL HUMAN SUBJECTS

445

Equally prominent with the behavioral changes were alterations in patterns of
language. Previous studies of convulsive therapy had indicated that speciﬁc syntactic
language patterns (as in the use of the third person mode, past and future tense, dis—
placement, minimization, denial, clichés, and cryptic remarks) increased with increasing neurophysiologic change”. These language patterns were further exaggerated by intravenous amobarbita114’15. In the present studies, chlorpromazine, triﬂupromazine and iproniazid increased these language patterns. Diethazine, LSD—25,
Win-2299, and benactyzine decreased and reversed these language patterns, increasing
the use of the present tense, ﬁrst person mode, and somatization7.
Relation of behavioral and electrographic observations
The electrographic patterns Were consistently altered concurrently with behavioral
changes both in the acute and chronic administration studies. Tranquillization,
euphoria, sedation and minimization of symptoms were commonly associated with
increased EEG synchronization and shift of frequencies to the delta range. Agitation,
tension, panic, excitement, illusions and hallucinations were associated with a desynchronization of frequencies.
Similar patterns were demonstrated in subjects with prior 8 activity. Agents
that tended to synchronize frequencies, as chlorpromazine and barbiturates, augmented the per cent time 8 activity and enhanced clinical patterns, while agents that
desynchronized frequencies, as diethane, LSD—25 and benactyzine, minimized the
clinical effects ascribed to repeated convulsions5-7.
(0)}

DISCUSSION

These observations are consistent with the neurophysiologic—adaptive hypothesis of
the mode of action of the newer psychopharmaceuticals“. This hypothesis states that
the clinical efﬁcacy of psychotropic drugs is dependent upon the induction of a per—
sistent alteration in cerebral function which provides the milieu for changes in the
subjects’ interaction with the environment. The variety of neurophysiologic patterns
induced by these agents is in contrast to the limited patterns resulting from convulsive
therapy and thus provides ampliﬁcation of the original hypothesis. It is evident from
these studies that the type of neurophysiologic alteration induced, as reﬂected in
EEG synchrony and frequency patterns, is related to speciﬁc types of behavioral
adaptation. With increasing synchrony and a shift to the 8 frequency spectrum,
tranquillization, sedation and decreased agitation become prominent, while desynchronization and a shift to [3 frequencies are associated with excitement, illusions
and delusional ideation.
These studies are also consistent with numerous reports of the neurophysiologic
effects of these compoundsm’ll’ 13:19:21, and speciﬁcally support and amplify those of
WIKLER who concluded, in his studies of morphine and mescaline, that “regardless
of the nature of the drug administered, shifts in the pattern of the electroencephalogram in the direction of desynchronization occurred in association with anxiety,
hallucinations, fantasies, illusions or tremors, and in the direction of synchronization
with euphoria, relaxation or drowsiness”2°.
This hypothesis, and the electrographic measure of neurophysiologic change,
lends itself to application in the assay of new psychotropic drugs“, the rational
References p. 446.

�446

M. FINK

application of pharmacotherapy7, and as a basis for further experimental study of
neurophysiologic—behaviora1 relationships in psychiatry.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are grateful for the cooperation of the following laboratories who made supplies
of the various psychopharmaceuticals freely available: Ciba Pharmaceutical Prods.
(reserpine), Lakeside Laboratories (JB—318, 336), Eli Lilly &amp; Co. (amobarbital),
Merck, Sharpe &amp; Dohme (benactyzine), Riker Laboratories (deanol), Roche Laboratories (iproniazid), Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (LSD-25), Schering Corp. (perphenazine),
Smith, Kline &amp; French Laboratories (chlorpromazine, diethazine), E. R. Squibb &amp;
Sons (triﬂupromazine), Winthrop Laboratories (Win—2299), Wyeth Laboratories
(promazine, meprobamate) .
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C. C. THOMAS,

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�EEG

and Behavioral Effects of Psychopharmacologic Agents

Max

From

Fink

MOD.

the Department of Ekperimental Psychiatry, Hillside Heapital,

Glen Oaks,

L010, NIY.

Institute of Mental
in part, by grants III-927 and MY—2092 , National
Health, National Institutes of Health, U.S.P.H.S., and Bristol, Smith, Kline

Aided,

French and Wyeth Laboratories.
Read

at the Collegian Internationale Neuro-Psychophamacologicum,

September 12, 1958.
IV:9-3-53

Rune,

and

�EEG

and Behavioral Effects of ggzchophgrmacologic Aggnts

Recent studies have presented data supporting a neurophysiologica

adaptive view of the convulsive therapy process (1, 2). This hypothesis
holds that the clinical efficacy of repeated induced convulsions is
dependent upon the induction of a

persistent alteration in cerebral

function, which provides the milieu for changes in the subject's interaction
with the environment. In these studies the best index of neuroplnrsiologic
change has been those aspects of cerebral function reﬂected by delta

activity in the electroencephalogram (3 ,h,5).
efficacy of newer psychopharmaceuticals in altering psychotic
behavior patterns led to the suggestion of a similar hypothesis for the
mode of action of these agents (2), and to studies of the relationship
The

and

specificity of altered behavioral patterns to neurophysiologjc

as reflected in electroencephalogram.
experimental data observed in ongoing
SUBJECTS AND
We

change

This report smunarizes some of the

tests

of

this hypothesis.

MODS:

patients, suffering from depressive
excited schizophrenic states and severe psycho-

have studied consecutive

psychoses, agitated and

neurotic disorders, referred for physiodynamic therapies (convulsive,
psychotropic drug, insulin coma) in a voluntary, open-wand, psychiatric

hospital. Serial electroencephalograms were taken prior to, during and
sitar the course of therapy. In addition, at various stages of the treatment
and
program acute experimental studies were done. As both convulsive
chlorpromazine therapies elicit varying degrees of EEG slow wave activity,

�.2these acute observations have been

made

in

without slow wave activity, and those with diffuse s1

or burst

EEG

w

wave (HSD, LSD)

activity (6).

and leW'WaVB (BSD)

Observations have been

bipolar

of subjects: those

two groups

in the

made

laboratory. Following a routine

EEG

recording, an unstructured psychiatric interview

recorded. Under continuous

EE‘3

intravenously at a set rate

until

was

recording, medication was administered
EEG

or behavioral effects

were observed.

Following the injection the interview was repeated and recorded.
EEG

drug

tape-

Periods of

recording and interview recording were alternated for the duration of

activity.
Behavioral evaluations have been based both on clinical descriptions

by the

participants (subject, physician

changes in language patterns

and

technician)

and analyses of

(7,8). Electroencephalograms were measured

for shifts in dominant frequencies,

and changes

in voltage, modulation,

and

per cent time of alpha, beta and delta frequency bands.
The psychopharmacologic agents were administered

periods in clinical

trials

(Table

I).

trials,
Dosage

and intravenously

for each

compound

orally for extended

in the acute experimental

varied, but in each instance

sufficient medication has been given to achieve clinical behavioral effects.

�I

TABLE

PSYCHOPHARMAGOIDGIC AGENTS STUDIED

(Oral and Intravenous)
chlorpromazine

amobarbital

atropine **

promazine

thiopenzal **

diethazine **
LSD-25

triflupromazine

(b)

"

perphenazine

amphetamine

Win~2299

reserpine*

methamphetamine

JB-318

(c)
(d) **

JB—336

(e)

iproniazid
deanol (a)

meprobamate
**

*

benactyzine

a. dimethylaminoethanol (9 )
b.

lysergic acid diethylamide

c. 2-d1ethylaminoethyl cyclopentyl (2-thieny1) glycolate (10)
d.

n~ethyl-3~p1peridy1benzilate (11)

e.

n-methyl—B—p1peridy1benzilate

(11)

* oral only
** intravenous only

**

�OBSERVATIONS:

(a) Electroencephalographic:

patterns, observed on acute drug
be identifieci according to the characteristics

Four broad types of

administration,
of frequency

may

shift

EEG

and synchronization

(2):

activity

in synchrony;

1)

Increase in slow

2)

Increase in synchrony without frequency shift;

3)

Increase in

wave

fast wave activity

and

and

h) Desynchronization and frequency
Examples of each are seen

in figures l-h.

-0-

---”-“-U- u --

Fig. 1, 2, 3,

,4

in synchrony;

irregularity.

�-5
During convulsive therapy, an increase in slow wave
synchrony

is manifest. (Fig.5) ‘iith

Fig.

activity

and

drug administration similar changes

5

-------in frequency spectrum

and

in synchrony are observed (Figs. 6, 7).
Figs.

6 7

0f the psychophnrmaceuticals tested in acute experiments
in synchrony with Sr without an increase in
observed

for chlorpromazine, promazine

regularly induced

an increase

and

slow wave

triflupromazine.

in fast activity with

an

prominent

after diethazine,

increase

activity has been
Barbiturates

increase in

synchrony, while amphetamine and methamphetamine increased

without increased synchrony.

an

fast activity

Desynchronization of frequencies was
LSD-25, Win-2299, JB-BlB, JB-336 and benactyzine.

In subjects with post-convulsive delta activity, acute administration
of chlorpromazine, promazine, triflupromazine, amobarbital and pentothal
increased the per cent time and voltage of slow wave activity. Decrease

in voltage and per cent time of slow

wave

activity

was seen with LSD-25,

benactysine, Win-2299, JB-318, JB~336, and diethazine (12-13).

Similar electrographic patterns
administration of these

compounds.

were noted

in chronic oral

Chlorpromazine, promazine, high

do$s of reserpine and occasionally perphenazine elicited increased
synchronization and a

shift of frequencies

to the delta range.

Increased

�.6synchronization without frequency shift was occasionally observed with
iproniazid. Increased high voltage fast activity was observed with
meprobamate and

barbiturates.

benactyzine induced

EEG

Oral administration of

LSD-25 and

desynchronization with an increase in

fast

frequencies.
(b2 Behavioral:

Initial studies

of convulsive therapy noted that behavioral

change was dependent upon the development of synchronous slow wave

(3). Prominent

among

tranquillization

activity

the associated behavioral effects were sedation,

and euphoria

in agitated, depressed subjects, and a

decrease in somatization, paranoid ideation, hallucinations and delusions

in schizophrenic
ideation

and

excited subjects. Increasing agitation, paranoid

and panic were observed

in less than

Similar behavioral relationships
pharmacologic agents.

10%

of the subjects.

were prominent with these psycho~

In acute experiments, administration of chlorpromazine,

promazine and triflupromazine was associated with increasing sedation,

drowsiness, denial and euphoria, decreasing agitation, panic, excitement
and

delusional

and

hallucinatory activity, and minimization

and displacement

of symptoms. Sedation, euphoria, denial and minimization were similarly

associated with amobarbital.
Administration of amphetamine and methamphetamine resulted in
behavioral alerting, hypomania, excitement, and increased motor activity.
Similar increased alerting, excitement, tension and panic were observed

after benactyzine. In addition to these patterns, illusory sensations
and

hallucinatory, delusional

diethazine,

and paranoid

ideation

LSD-25, Win-2299, JB-318 and JB—336.

were observed with

�-7Equally prominent with the behavioral changes were alterations in

patterns of language. Previous studies of convulsive therapy had
indicated that specific syntactic language patterns (as in the use of
the third person mode, past and future tense, displacement, minimization,
denial, cliches, and cryptic remarks) increased with increasing neurophysiologic change (7). These language patterns were further exaggerated
by intravenous amobarbital

(l,

7). In the present studies, chlorpromazine,

triflupromazine and iproniazid increased these language patterns.
Diethazine, LSD-25, Win-2299, and benactyzine decreased and reversed

these language patterns, increasing the use of the present tense,

first

person mode, and somatization (1h).

(0) Relation of Behavioral
The

and Electrqgraphic Observations:

electrographic patterns were consistently altered

concurrently with behavioral changes both in the acute and chronic

administration studies. Tranquillization, euphoria, sedation.and
minimization of

symptoms were commonly

synchronization and

associated with increased

EEG

shift of frequencies to the delta range. Agitation,

tension, panic, excitement, illusions

and

hallucinations were associated

with a desynchronization of frequencies.
Similar patterns were demonstrated in subjects with prior delta

activity. Agents that tended to synchronize frequencies, as chlorpromazine
and barbiturates, augmented the per cent time delta activity and enhanced
clinical patterns, while agents that desynchroniaed frequencies, as
diethazine, LSD-2S and benactyzine, minimized the clinical effects ascribed
to repeated convulsions (12, 13, 1h).

�-8DISCUSSION:

These observations are consistent with the neurophysiologic-adaptive

hypothesis of the

mode

of action of the newer psychopharmaceuticals (2).

is

This hypothesis states that the clinical efficacy of psychotropic drugs

persistent/alteration in cerebral function
which provides the milieu for changes in the subjects' interaction with the
dependent upon the induction of a

variety of neurophysiologic patterns induced by these
agents is in contrast to the limited patterns resulting from convulsive
therapy and thus provide amplification of the original hypothesis. It is

environment.

The

evident from these studies that the type of neurophysiologic alteration
induced, as reflected in

EEG

synchrony and frequency

to specific types of behavioral adaptation.
a

With

patterns, is related

increasing synchrony

shift to the delta frequency spectrum, tranquillization, sedation

and

and

decreased agitation become prominent, while desynchronization and a shift to
beta frequencies are associated with excitement, illusions and delusional
'

ideation.
These studies are also consistent with numerous reports of the neuroand
physiologic effects of these compounds (15-20), and specifically support
amplify those of Wikler who concluded, in his studies of morphine and

mescaline, that "regardless of the nature of the drug administered, shifts
in the pattern of the electroencephalogram in the direction of desynchroniza-

tion occurred in association with anxiety, hallucinations, fantasies,
illusions or tremors, and in the direction of synchronization with euphoria,
relaxation or drowsiness" (21).
This hypothesis, and the electrographic measure of neurophysiologic
change, lends

itself to application in

the assay of

the rational application of pharmacotherapy

(lb),

new

psychotropic drugs

and as a

(2%

basis for further

experimental study of neurophysiologic-behavioral relationships in psychiatry.

�SUMMKRI AND CONCLUSIONS:

The

relation between electroencephalographic

change and behavioral

response was determined on acute and chronic administration of a variety
of psychopharmacologic agents in voluntary, openoward, psychiatric

patients.
EEG

patterns were classed according to effects

on synchrony and

frequency patterns. Behavioral and language pattern changes were noted
as concurrent with
Agents

EEG

response.

that induced

an

alteration in neurophysiology manifest as

increased synchrony and frequency slowing in

EEG

were associated with

behavioral sedation, tranquillity, and minimization of symptoms. Increased
synchrony and increased frequency were associated with sedation, euphoria,
hypomania and decreased somatization.

Desynchronization of frequencies was accompanied by increasing

agitation, excitement, somatization, illusory phenomena
and

and

hallucinatory

delusional ideation.
The

neurophysiologiccadaptive hypothesis of the

psychotropic drugs

is supported;

mode

of action of

and the value of electroencephalography

in the behavioral assay of these agents is suggested.

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FIGURES

1.

Chlorpromazine, oral (male, age 15).

2.

Chlorpromazine, oral (female, age 3b).

3.

Amobarbital, intravenous (male, age 31).
Win-2299, intravenous (female, age

bl).

ﬂectroconmllsive Therapy (female,

age 55).

Amobarbital, intravenous (female, age 36).
Win-2299, intravenous (female, age 51).

�ACKNOWEDGEMENT

are grateful for the cooperation of the following
laboratories who made supplies of the various psychopharmaceuticals
We

fully available: Ciba Pharmaceutical Prods. (reserpine), Lakeside
Laboratories (JB—318, 336), Eli Lilly 8: Co. (amobarbital), Merck
Sharpe

8c

Dohme

(benactyzine), Riker Laboratories (Deanol),

Roche

Laboratories (iproniazid), Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (LSD-25),
Schering Corp. (perphenazine), Smith, Kline 8: French Laboratories
(chlorpromazine, diethazine), E.R. Squibb

&amp;

Sons (triflupromazine),

Winthrop Laboratories (Win-2299) and Wyeth Laboratories (promazine,
meprobamate ) .

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