An EEG can help diagnose a variety of brain conditions, and that’s the focus of this week’s Fit-and-Well Idaho report.

Recurrent visually induced seizures and no spontaneous seizures, with or without a photoparoxysmal response on the EEG. These children show myoclonic jerks and/or epilepsy with generalized tonic ...

MRI scans were unremarkable but EEG showed spikes over the occipital regions and generalized spike–wave discharges (Figure 1B), enhanced by photic stimulation. Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy was ...

People with dementia have distinct brain wave patterns ... of neuronal activity in the brain. EEG is already used to diagnose and study conditions such as epilepsy, brain inflammation and sleep ...

A recent report has described the use of video-electroencephalography (video-EEG) in the management of patients with atypical juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). The work highlights the importance ...

The wave pattern frequency that the EEG creates has a designated brainwave pattern. A person’s level of alertness changes in response to the type or rhythm of their brain waves. For example ...

There are four clinical neurophysiology residents at UAB each year, two with an emphasis on epilepsy/EEG and two with an emphasis on EMG/neuromuscular disease. The two residents in the epilepsy/EEG ...

An EEG is a test that measures electrical ... in brain wave activity just before death Gamma waves are associated with increased focus, seizures and schizophrenia READ MORE: Scientists say people ...

Historically, they are also called "Berger's waves" after Hans Berger, who first described them when he invented the EEG in 1924. Alpha waves are one type of brain waves detected by ...

Nanshu Lu, University of Texas at Austin Electroencephalography (EEG) is an important tool for diagnosing a variety of neurological conditions, including seizures, brain tumors, epilepsy ...