The 1968 Harvard committee recommended that doctors use electroencephalography (EEG) to make sure the patient has flat brain waves.

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Dr Contreras-Vidal's approach gets round these difficulties by employing electroencephalography (EEG), which measures those electrical signals from the brain that reach the scalp.

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Damian Cruse of the Cambridge group thinks he may have found a solution in electroencephalography (EEG), a cheaper and more portable way of measuring brain activity via electrodes pasted to the patient's scalp.

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Saygin's ongoing studies make use of electroencephalography, or EEG, which measures electrical activity along the scalp.

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