EEG TERMINOLOGY SET 1| 140 Questions| With Answers

ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY correct answer: The process of amplicication, recording and analysis of the electrical potentails of the brain GRAPH correct answer: instrument GRAPHY correct answer: PROCESS GRAM correct answer: THE RECORDING ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM correct answer: The EEG recording itself *can be printed or stored on digital media ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPH correct answer: The instrument used to amplify and record eletrical potentials of the brain ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY correct answer: The recording of electrical activity directly from the surface of the cerebral cortex *during surgery or post surgery (implanted leads) TERMS TO DESCRIBE EEG PATTERNS & WAVES FTMOP correct answer: Frequency Topography Morphology Occurrence Polarity FREQUENCY correct answer: *cycles per second STANDARD UNIT OF FREQUENCY IS correct answer: Hertz *1hz is equal to 1 cycle per sec *the number of complete cycles of repetitive waves or complexes in one sec. CYCLES correct answer: a complete series of changes undergone by a wave or complex before the series o