Abstract
Since the late 1920s when Hans Berger first recorded the EEG in humans, an enormous amount of knowledge concerning the normal EEG has been accumulated. During these years, the EEGs of normal persons have been recorded in numerous situations and under a wide variety of conditions. Tracings have been taken during performance of a virtually endless list of different tasks and activities, as well as during different states of consciousness, from persons over the entire life span. Much of the data concerning the normal EEG need not concern us here. Thus, the clinical application of EEG is concerned mainly with the features of the tracing as they are seen in wakefulness under resting conditions1 and in sleep. The EEG during specific, clinically significant activation procedures is discussed in Chapter 16.
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Duffy, F.H., Iyer, V.G., Surwillo, W.W. (1989). The Normal EEG. In: Clinical Electroencephalography and Topographic Brain Mapping. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-8826-5_14
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