Word: electroencephalograms
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They plan to go into schools in Boston and diagnose dyslexia in children as young as possible with a modified version of an electroencephalogram (EEG), which measures brain waves using electrodes attached to the head...
...investigated a variety of sleep disorders since it opened in September, but has only been fully funded since April 1. It has managed to operate on a "relatively low budget," explains Stakes, because the lab shares facilities with an electroencephalogram (EEG)--brain wave--laboratory which operates during...
...blow to the head-and then do an extensive series of tests. Among them: shining light into the eyes to see if the pupils contract, spurting ice-cold water into the ears to check whether the eyes react by quivering. In the U.S., physicians also often do an electroencephalogram (EEG) to confirm that there is no brain activity...
...session, electrodes are attached to one or both sides of the head, and 80 to 100 volts applied for as much as one second. That produces enough current to light a 100-watt bulb and causes a brain seizure, which can be traced on an electroencephalogram. Patients regain consciousness within minutes but may be groggy and confused for a while. Usually six to ten ECT sessions are given within a two-to-three-week period...
During one of the routine, twice-yearly physical examinations required for all boxers under West German regulations, a standard electroencephalogram showed an "irregularity" in KÖpcke's brain-wave pattern. Doctors then used the CAT (for "computerized axial tomography") scanner to make cross-section images of the boxer's brain and discovered, in their words, "a fairly common, apparently congenital anomaly between the cerebrum and cerebellum"-a condition that might make him particularly susceptible to injury from blows to the head. Hamburg's amateur boxing association believed it had no other choice; it banned the apparently...