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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument that measures electrical potentials on the scalp and generates a record of the electrical activity of the brain.
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- noun neurology An instrument used for recording of electrical brain activity.
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- noun medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
What Makes Us Happy? 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
Adrian Monck 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
Adrian Monck 2009
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Using a new test called the electroencephalograph, the study measured the electrical activity in the brain, and sought to deduce character from the squiggles.
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A team led by Dr Lakhmir Chawla used an electroencephalograph (EEG), a device that measures brain activity, in seven terminally ill people to provide pain-relieving sedation.
Scientists Believe a Near-Death Experience is the Last Gasp of a Dying Brain | Impact Lab 2010
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In 2007 the duo built a body-heat powered electroencephalograph device that monitored brain activity.
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The long history of the brain's depiction, from the first raw sketches of antiquity, through early electroencephalograph EEG recordings, to the abstract art of modern-day scanners is charted in the newly published Portraits of the Mind – from which a selection of images are shown here – by Carl Schoonover, a doctoral student in neurobiology at Columbia University in New York.
The human brain unravelled Ian Sample 2010
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EEG.
October 29, 2008