An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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BERGER, Johannes (“Hans”)

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Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menschen.

Arch. Psychiat. Nervenkr., 87, 527-70, 1929.

First recording of human brain activity, which Berger called electroencephalography. Berger actually recorded his first EEG in 1924, but did not publish the technique until 1929. He showed that the electrical activity of the human brain could be recorded from the intact scalp.



Subjects: Electrodiagnosis, INSTRUMENTS & TECHNOLOGIES, NEUROSCIENCE › NERVOUS SYSTEM › Brain, including Medulla: Cerebrospinal Fluid