100 Jahre EEG – was war eigentlich nach Hans Berger

Zusammenfassung

Nachdem Hans Berger 1924 die erste EEG-Ableitung am Menschen durchführte und seine Ergebnisse 1929 publizierte, dauerte es einige Jahre bis Bergers Ergebnisse in der Wissenschaftlichen Community anerkannt wurden und es schließlich zu einer breiten Anwendung des EEGs durch andere Forscher kam. Edgar Douglas Adrian und William Grey Walter führten das EEG in Großbritannien ein. In Deutschland leistete Jan Friedrich Georg Theodor Tönnies grundlegende technische Entwicklungen, wesentliche klinische und tierexperimentelle Studien wurden in Berlin von Alois Kornmüller, Max Heinrich Fischer und Hans Löwenbach durchgeführt. In den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika waren Alexander Forbes, Samuel Howard Bartley, Lee Edward Travis und Ralph Waldo Gerard die wichtigsten Vertreter der tierexperimentellen EEG-Forschung, während Hallowell Davis, Herbert Henri Jasper, Frederic Andrews Gibbs, Donald B. Lindsley und Alfred Lee Loomis die EEG-Forschung beim Menschen vorantrieben.

Abstract

While Hans Berger performed the first human EEG recording in 1924 and published his results in 1929, it took several years for Bergerʼs findings to be acknowledged in the scientific community, and EEG to be widely applied by other researchers. Edgar Douglas Adrian and William Grey Walter introduced EEG in Great Britain. In Germany, Jan Friedrich Georg Theodor Tönnies made fundamental technical developments; important animal and human EEG studies were performed in Berlin by Alois Kornmüller, Max Heinrich Fischer and Hans Löwenbach. In the United States of America, animal EEG studies were carried out by Alexander Forbes, Samuel Howard Bartley, Lee Edward Travis and Ralph Waldo Gerard, while Hallowell Davis, Herbert Henri Jasper, Frederic Andrews Gibbs, Donald B. Lindsley and Alfred Lee Loomis advanced human EEG research.

Schlüsselwörter

EEG - Geschichte - Epilepsie

Keywords

EEG - history - epilepsy

Publication History

Article published online:
03 March 2025

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