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The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a measure of brain waves. It is a readily available test that provides evidence of how the brain functions over time. The EEG is used in the evaluation of brain disorders. Most commonly it is used to show the type and location of the activity in the brain during a seizure. It also is used to evaluate people who are having problems associated with brain function. These problems might include confusion, coma, tumors, long-term difficulties with thinking or memory, or weakening of specific parts of the body (such as weakness associated with a stroke). An EEG is also used to determine brain death. It may be used to prove that someone on life-support equipment has no chance of recovery.
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APR 04, 2018
Neuroscience
Picture a scene in which a cap with electrode sensors is fitted on to a person's scalp, connected to an electroencep
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 26, 2018
Neuroscience
Researchers at the University of Toulouse in France have completed work that shows how patients who have epilepsy can so
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 21, 2018
Clinical & Molecular DX
Silent seizures often go unnoticed, but they can cause brain damage in certain cases. With proper diagnosis of this cond
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 06, 2018
Neuroscience
Understanding the spoken word is probably one of the most complex tasks the human brain can perform. In regular conversa
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 22, 2018
Neuroscience
Have you ever said to someone, “What were you thinking?” Research from UC Berkeley neuroscientists may soon
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 18, 2017
Videos
Being able to predict when a person could have a seizure would be an invaluable tool for the thousands of patients who l
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 11, 2017
Neuroscience
When someone talks to themselves, it can often look as if they are not quite all there, mentally. The image of a person
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
It has long been thought that no hope remains for people that fall into a persistent vegetative state, but scientists ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2017
Neuroscience
When you’re dead you’re dead, game over, right? Not entirely, at least not according to an American c
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 09, 2017
Neuroscience
It used to be a common belief that newborns and very young babies could not feel pain. Once they did start to develop th
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 01, 2017
Neuroscience
To see if students actually enjoy a class—and get along with their classmates—check their brainwaves, a new
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 01, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have discovered a common genetic origin for two seemingly unrelated diseases, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 20, 2017
Neuroscience
In medical science, death is declared after certain conditions are met. Normally it’s the cessation of a heart bea
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JAN 25, 2017
Neuroscience
Teens shouldn’t drink alcohol. This isn’t a concept that’s at all unclear, there are dozens of researc
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
DEC 19, 2016
Neuroscience
Robotic appendages that do the work of lost limbs are the rock stars of neuroscience research. New ways to control
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 20, 2016
Neuroscience
Can we train our brains? While there has been some controversy over pay-to-play brain training games and programs that p
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 04, 2016
Neuroscience
General anesthesia carries many risks with it, as does any surgical procedure. The effect that anesthesia medication has
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 03, 2016
Neuroscience
When a person sleeps, the brain is still very hard at work. Everything that someone sees, does or learns in the average
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
AUG 02, 2016
Neuroscience
In terms of learning a second language, the standard has always been that the younger a person is when attempting a new
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUL 13, 2016
Neuroscience
When medical professionals have to determine a patient’s condition, they look to their vital signs---heart rate, r
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAY 25, 2016
Neuroscience
It is well-known that the extracellular concentrations of various ions in the brain change depending on the behavioral s
...
Written By:
Cassidy Reich
MAY 18, 2016
Neuroscience
Can you move things with your thoughts? As it turns out, some people can, but they are not carnival performers or nightc
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 08, 2016
Immunology
Scientists have grown tiny, barely visible “mini-brains.” These balls of neurons and other human cells mimic
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
JAN 18, 2016
Neuroscience
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other forms of dementia are on the rise. There is no known cause of AD and there isn&
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim