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English: 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 Menschen. 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.
Date December 1937 ?
Source Berger H. Über das Elektrenkephalogramm des Menchen. Archives für Psychiatrie . 1929; 87:527-70.
Author Hans Berger
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This work 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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