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I had a 'perm' today. - E.E.G.

 “I had a perm today”.    EEG


While visiting the hospital

Periodically,

From seven years, for thirty more

Two or three times, annually


My mother did go with me

When way too young, I was

To visit doctor by myself,

To find outlying cause.


Before one visitation,

It had been pre arranged

That I would have an EEG

To see if things had changed


An Electo-Encphalo-Graph

I’d never had before

So mum was reassuring me

It wouldn’t, at all, be sore.


Describing it quite easily 

As when she had a perm.

With ‘lectrodes attached to my head,

Uncomplicated term 


So when I was much older

To visit doc alone,

I aye reported back to mum

Just how things were goin’


Now when an EEG was done

And mum asked how things went

Told her “I had a perm today”

Knew ‘xactly, what I meant.



History of the #encephalogram
In the middle of the 19th century, it was established that muscle tissue and the brain emit weakly Electric signals. For the first time, the activity of electric waves was investigated by the #Englishman Cato and the Russian #Danilevsky. It was only in 1924 that the first encephalography of the brain was recorded by the scientist #Pravdich - #Nemitsky, and the German scientist Hans Berger introduced the concept of the encephalogram.
This method was put into practice in 1934. Currently, doctors refer to the name in the abbreviated form as the abbreviation EEG - EEG.
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a technology for measuring the electrical activity of your brain.
It was the first brain research technology, which remains one of the most frequently used research methods for diagnosing various brain problems, along with #MRI and CT scans.
Here's how an #EEG machine works: Every time a #synaptic connection is made between your neurons, they generate a small amount of electrical energy known as an action potential. When millions of neurons are synchronously connected to each other by synaptic connections, these electrical signals are amplified and can be measured through the skin.
Small conductive plates (electrodes) are fixed in contact with the upper part of the scalp, which records these electrical activities.

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