BIOL 373: Electroencephalography... But Please, Call Me EEG.

This link takes you to the Epilepsy Foundation's Website and it explains EEG in the context of epilepsy. EEG technology can check the electrical activity in your brain (also known as "brain waves") and use that information to gain insight into an epilepsy patient's condition.

This page describes EEG and goes into a little more detail than the link above it does. It describes an EEG and the process of getting one as if you were a patient, which gives you a different perspective than looking at EEG technology as a researcher normally does. There are other interesting links on Johns Hopkins Medicine's website, so feel free to explore this website more in order to gain a better understanding of epilepsy from a medical standpoint.

A quick description of how EEGs are read, where the electrodes are placed on the subject's head, and what the doctor can learn from reading an EEG.

A brief overview of some flaws commonly found in EEG usage. This article specifically addresses whether the EEG is useful in determining what treatment option is best. It also addresses fallacies common in the literature.

Specificity and sensitivity of routine EEGs are explored as well as the ability of EEG technology to successfully monitor epileptic activity in the long term. This article describes how EEG can help manage epilepsy in the sense that it is a useful detection method, but it cannot yet do much more than serve as a monitoring system of the brain's electrical activity.