Electroencephalogram ( EEG )

Introduction :

Electroencephalography in study of electrical activities

of Brain .

• EEG
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graphical
in
recording of electrical activities
of
Brain .

gram
°
German psychiatrist Hans Berger was the first one to
analyze
the EEG waves
systematically and hence the EEG waxes are

referred as
Berger waves .

Significance -07 EEG :

disorder
Useful in the
diagnosis of neurological disorders and sleep
°

EEG altered
paten in in the
following neurological disorders
°
:

in
Epilepsy ( excessive
discharge of impulses )
( 21 Disorders
of midbrain
(3) Subdural hematoma .

Method of Recording EEG :

record
Electroencephalograph in the instrument used to EEG
•
.

The electrodes called

scalp electrodes
from the instrument
•

are

placed over
unopened skull or over the brain
after opening
skull into
or
by piercing brain .

Electrodes
•
can be unipolar a
bipolar .

Waves EEG
-
of :

°
Electrical
activity recorded
by EEG may have synchronized or

de synchronized waves .

bands
°
In
regular person ,
E
Eg
has three
frequency :

( as a
Rhythm
bi
.
⑦ wanes are also
present but
only in
( p Rhythm children .

(c) S Rhythm
 Some properties :

(1) A f = 8 -
12 hz

rhythm A =
50µV Light
obtained in Inattentive brain ( sleep ,
narcosis )

Diminished when are

opened
eyes
.

(2) 13 rhythm f- -
15 -
60 has

A =
5 -
lo
peu
De synchronized waves

Mainly in
higher mental
activity / Peak performance
(3) 8 Rhythm f - I -
5 he
wake
.
gf appeared in ,
there
A they be
pathological
= 20 -
200 can

Problem like
Appears mostly
in
deep sleep .
,

-
Tumor

141 O waves obtained in children below 5

-

Epilepsy
Depression
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f- = 4 -
8 ha
-
Intracranial
A =
10 MY pressure .
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