Electroencephalography

That is incredible.

And simultaneously, their EEG brainwave monitors showed a massive shift.

They moved entirely out of drowsy delta and theta waves and spiked directly into highly focused, alert beta and gamma waves.

So their bodies were deeply, profoundly relaxed, but their brains were highly alert and sharp.

The neurology service was re-consulted.

EEG findings increased the suspicion for seizures.

ST was discharged on aspirin, a statin, and a seizure medication, as well as a 14-day cardiac monitor.

I scrolled back frame by frame.

Static, just ordinary system drift, except for three seconds of cranial patterning on the medbay EEG.

A spiral, faint and erratic, blipping in the record of operator Cade.

I shut the log in a flurry of nerves, trying not to think of what it meant to be so easily rewritten.

I find myself kneeling at the apparatus.

At first it looks like an EEG, the kind used for sleep studies.

But the longer I look, the wires looped for human scalps, tremor sensors, the closer it resembles a radio array built to broadcast a mind rather than a signal.

Worse, Eva's flashlight catches a detail, several circuits, repatched since the diagrams.

Beta waves are associated with a busy brain, being stimulated.

Talk to your team about whether sedation should be paused during the EEG and whether there are safety concerns with it being turned off.

Don't forget that sticky electrodes in the hair can lead to skin irritation and breakdown.

So wash that gunk out.

of which we do very seldom because there's only one physician in the city who can do somatosensory evoked potentials in a useful fashion for neurologic prognosis.

Most of the rest of our signs are associated with poor outcome but not universally hopeless outcome.

Extensor posturing, myoclonus, birth suppression on the EEG, loss of grey-white matter differentiation on the CT scan, these are all poor prognostic signs and taken in summary as independent data points may lead one to the conclusion that the prognosis is poor.

And that has to be taken in the context of the rest of the patient.

So lots of pressure to find an answer here.

His project was intended to scrutinize the eye movements for amplitude, frequency, and consistency in patterns relative to a then accepted EEG classification of sleep stages.

So match the movements with what's happening on the EEG in accordance to the sleep stages that were already being recognized.

Specifically, based on his infant research, he intended to find a distinct and unique 20-minute period of sleep and be able to associate it with physiological variables, like the movement of your eyes.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

Right?

This highly versatile direct writing polygraph and recorder was eventually used as an EEG for NASA, fun fact.

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When you understand how EEG fits into clinical decision-making, you can begin to see the brain not as a mystery, but as a measurable, trackable system that reveals what clients truly need.

Welcome, everyone.

I'm Dr. Heather Putney, founder and executive director of Transformative Neurotherapy.

So that means we've got to fix their liver and their pancreas as well as their guts first.

And that process often takes three, four, six months.

So that's a process that really does show really good changes in EEG.

And it takes a little while.

Like, this is one of those, you know, sacred, deep human rituals and, and, you know, these things have DMT, which is something the brain naturally produces in the pineal and is associated with dreaming in states like this.

I've done brainwave training where I've been in Sedona, and they hooked my brain up to EEG electrodes, and I got to learn how to modulate my brainwaves to create different states.

And so [lip smack] this is just my way of exploring these journeys.

Um, I just wanna encourage you, if you have some genuine curiosity, this could be a great area for you to find a lot of motivation and direct your attention in because it can bring you really deep into some things that are wonderful in life and far deeper than just the surface.