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The electroencephalogram: recording the electrical activity of the brain

The electroencephalogram, a test to measure and record the electrical activity of the brain.

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

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The electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of the brain.

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The EEG is useful in the assessment of discomfort, the diagnosis and monitoring of epilepsy, but also for other neurological pathologies: origin of certain comas, and in newborns in all cases of cerebral suffering.

This examination does not cause any pain.

What is the interpretation of an EEG?

How is a sleep EEG performed?

In which case is this examination prescribed?

• Dr Gilles Huberfeld,

  neurologist and epileptologist at the

  Rothschild Foundation in Paris

  and researcher at

  the Collège de France.

• Pr Fodé Cissé,

  Head of the Neurology Department at the CHU Ignace Deen in Conakry, Guinea.

• Coline Gagne,

  home assistant with disabled elderly people;

  and alternate delegate of the

  Epilepsy France

  delegation of the Lot-et-Garonne department

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