Electroencephalography (EEG) was invented 100 years ago and during this time revolutionary in brain. This method of recording and reading brain activity has become a key tool for researchers, allowing you to significantly deepen the understanding of the processes of perception, memory and other cognitive functions, as well as provide huge assistance in the diagnosis and treatment of various brain disorders, including epilepsy.
Opening EEG
July 6, 1924 Psychiatrist Hans Berger first recorded the electrical activity of the human brain, conducting Experiment on a 17-year-old patient underwent neurosurgical surgery. Until that time, such studies were carried out only on animals. Berger sought to find the physical basis published there are only in 1929. These five years have become a period of doubt and refinements of the experimental attitude. Berger spent hundreds of EEG records on various subjects, including his own children, overcoming both success and failure. In the end, he published a series of articles in the journal archiv für psychiatrie and hoped to receive the Nobel Prize. However, the scientific community doubted its results for a long time, and only after years did other researchers use EEG in their works. In 1940, Berger was nominated for the Nobel Prize, but because of the Second