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EEGs without the electrodes?

To me why don't they admit before bed time. They wanted a 3-5 day for daniel. That would be awesome! Payne does the one he wears home from the office and overnight and then goes back to the doctor to get them taken off...expensive, but the insurance pays for it. We've done the other kind before, but we don't get as extensive of a reading with it. How Fantastic!  I hope this is available in the states soon.

Here's a link to an article in the Economist (September 8, 2007 issue).  Robert Prance and his colleagues at the University of Sussex, England, have developed a way to do an electrocardiograph and EEG without skin contact.  They've succeeded with a model worn like a wristwatch, and are working towards a model with no skin contact whatsoever -- a medic would just hold a probe close to the patient.

Good news for parents of kids like my oldest son, whose sensory sensitivities made his sleep-deprived EEG impossible to carry through -- he couldn't relax and fall asleep with all that goo on him.

Anyhow, here's the link:

http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?story _id=9719063  

About time.  We've needed an EEG for my son, but there is no way he would keep the electrodes(?) on his head.  I hope it is available here soon.

Thanks for the info.
 

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