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Electroencephalography

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Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording of electrical activity of the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. It measures the summed postsynaptic potentials of large populations of neurons, filtered through the skull, scalp, and cerebrospinal fluid. The resulting signal is a voltage fluctuation — typically in the microvolt range — that carries information about the brain's state, from the slow oscillations of deep sleep to the fast gamma rhythms of active attention.

The EEG is the oldest non-invasive window into the living brain. Hans Berger recorded the first human EEG in 1924, detecting what he called the alpha

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