Abstract

EEG, discovered by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger in 1924, has made its way into history books as a remarkable leap in medical technology. It has given us a way to interpret brain physiology in a non-invasive manner through which brain pathologies are more easily detectable than ever. A machine that once took up the space of an entire room is nowadays much more compact and accessible for clinicians to use in a variety of medical fields, including epilepsy diagnostics, critically ill patients’ surveillance and prognosis, as well as studies in psychology. For one hundred years, EEG has granted us a valuable insight into the human brain, yet much is still to come, whether it is giving paralysed patients back the chance to move, having more precise ways to diagnose mental illnesses, or making EEGs more accessible in smaller hospitals through automatic EEG analysing programmes.