Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators have identified specific EEG (electroencephalogram) signatures that indicate when patients lose and regain consciousness under the general anesthetic ...

Hypsarrhythmia is an abnormal pattern that appears on an EEG test. This pattern shows up as a specific and recognizable pattern of tall, wide waves on top of the background. Share on Pinterest Getty ...

While nitrous oxide gas has been used recreationally and medically for more than 200 years - originally for its euphoric and then for its pain relieving and anesthetic properties - the mechanism ...

A UNSW study found that people with schizophrenia who hear voices react to inner speech as if it were external sound. Using ...

Comatose survivors of cardiac arrest didn't benefit from intense treatment of seizure-like activity on continuous electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring, the TELSTAR trial showed. Between people ...

Does exposure to stress early in life affect a baby's brain development, and is there a way to single out babies who might benefit from early intervention? A new study used brain EEGs to begin to get ...

Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced ...

A new global sleep project unites decades of data to uncover why we dream, linking brain activity with the moments just ...