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Description: First published Electroencephalogram of a human. This image is one of the first EEGs, appearing in Berger's First Report. It is a portion of fig. 13 from Berger's first publication on EEG: Berger H. Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menchen. Archives für Psychiatrie. 1929; 87:527-70. This was later translated into English and republished: Berger H. On the Electroencephalogram of Man. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol. 1969;Suppl 28:37-73. PMID 4188918 It appears on page 58 of the translated version. The top trace is the EEG recorded from a young boy, the bottom trace is a 10 Hz frequency reference.
Title: 1st-eeg
Credit: Berger H. Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menchen. Archives für Psychiatrie. 1929; 87:527-70.
Author: Hans Berger
Permission: This file is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.
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