Word: electroencephalographer
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...thing": an electroencephalograph, an instrument used to record human brain waves...
...flight surgeon, supervised treatment of some 15,000 neurotic or psychotic Army flyers during the war. Now a civilian again, he has a staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge. All told the clinic has 38 rooms, and 28 more are to be added...
Brain Tumor. Last winter, in the hospital, Dr. Brickley watched a woman who lay dying of a brain tumor. An electrocardiograph and electroencephalograph were attached to her heart and brain to record their electrical waves. First the waves on the left side of her brain stopped. Ten minutes later, the waves on the right side stopped. For ten further minutes, the heart waves kept on. When the heart stopped, the doctors declared the woman dead. But five minutes later, with no stimulation or drugs, the heart started to beat again, continued throbbing for five minutes. According to Dr. Brickley, this...
Noted Roentgenologist Cornelius Gysbert Dyke supervised X-rays as Pandora whiffed ether. Next day Pandora was brought back for more tests. The Institute's chief, Tracy Putnam, himself tapped Pandora's spinal cord, drew fluid for tests. On the electroencephalograph, which records brain impulses as clues to tumors or other disturbances, Pandora flopped: her too-thick skull thwarted doctors looking for variations in the alpha, beta and delta waves...
Remarkably sensitive to aerial noises, the electroencephalograph, while attached to a patient's head, may sometimes pick up short-wave radio programs. Classic is the accident which happened to famed British Neurologist Edgar Douglas Adrian, who once hitched an amplifier to a brain recorder, for a wholesale broadcast of brain waves to an auditorium full of his colleagues. To his horror the electroencephalograph blared out God Save the King. In confusion, half the neurologists rose, half remained seated...