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The use of the electroencephalogram (EEG) in medical practice has a history extending over 40 years, during the first quarter of which most of the observations of current clinical diagnostic value were made and the methods to be used in EEG assessment established. The account published by Davis in 1941 on technique and evaluation of the EEG might well pass with little comment in a modern introductory text. The appearance of such a paper in a journal of neurophysiology makes it clear that electroencephalography was then regarded as having scientific value; in its subsequent history, however, dominated as it was by endeavours heavily orientated to clinical and particularly psychiatric correlates, neurophysiologists played but a small part and little progress was made towards an understanding of the basic phenomena of the EEG. However, the past ten years have seen a resurgence of interest, not only involving neurophysiologists but also mathematicians, physicists and computer technologists. It is largely with the work of these that this session of the Congress is concerned.
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Driver, M.V. (1972). EEG Assessment in Clinical Medicine. In: Nicholson, J.P. (eds) Interdisciplinary Investigation of the Brain. Advances in Behavioral Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3539-7_9
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