Book ID: CBB788699072

Brainwaves: A Cultural History of Electroencephalography (2018)

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Borck, Cornelius (Author)
Hentschel, Ann M. (Translator)


Hentschel, Ann M.
Routledge


Publication Date: 2018
Physical Details: 334
Language: English

In the history of brain research, the prospect of visualizing brain processes has continually awakened great expectations. In this study, Cornelius Borck focuses on a recording technique developed by the German physiologist Hans Berger to register electric brain currents; a technique that was expected to allow the brain to write in its own language, and which would reveal the way the brain worked. Borck traces the numerous contradictory interpretations of electroencephalography, from Berger’s experiments and his publication of the first human EEG in 1929, to its international proliferation and consolidation as a clinical diagnostic method in the mid-twentieth century. Borck's thesis is that the language of the brain takes on specific contours depending on the local investigative cultures, from whose conflicting views emerged a new scientific object: the electric brain.

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Authors & Contributors
Borck, Cornelius
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Boer, Bas de
Te Molder, Hedwig
Carmel Addie Raz
Beatty, Joel Scott
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain
Neurophysiology
Electroencephalography
Nervous system
Medical instruments and apparatus
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Switzerland
Russia
Germany
Geneva (Switzerland)
Soviet Union
Institutions
International Brain Research Organization
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