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Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography

Hardcover

Series: Science, Technology and Culture, 1700-1945

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1472469445
ISBN13: 9781472469441
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 24 2018
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger's experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century.

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