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EEG

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive neurophysiological technique that records the brain's spontaneous electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp, capturing the summed postsynaptic potentials of large cortical neuronal populations as voltage fluctuations over time. The signal is conventiona…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 119× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2470-5020 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a non-invasive neurophysiological technique that records the brain's spontaneous electrical activity through electrodes placed on the scalp, capturing the summed postsynaptic potentials of large cortical neuronal populations as voltage fluctuations over time. The signal is conventionally decomposed into frequency bands, delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma, whose distribution, amplitude, and reactivity reflect underlying states of arousal, cognition, and pathology. Because of its high temporal resolution, EEG is foundational in clinical neurology for diagnosing and classifying epilepsy, distinguishing epileptic from non-epileptic seizures, characterizing encephalopathies, and evaluating disorders of sleep and consciousness. Related electrophysiological methods, including evoked potentials such as the brainstem auditory evoked potential, extend the approach to assess specific sensory pathways, while quantitative analyses of functional connectivity probe network-level disruption in dementia and neurodevelopmental conditions. EEG also underpins neurofeedback paradigms that train modulation of frequency components in conditions such as autism spectrum disorder, and serves as an experimental tool for studying altered states, attention, and the effects of neurostimulation. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research applying electroencephalographic and related electrophysiological methods to seizure disorders, sleep, neurostimulation targeting, and cognitive and connectivity analyses across neurological populations.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 119 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Neurological Research and Therapy (ISSN 2470-5020).

Journal editorial board
Ian J Martins · Australia Giuseppe Lanza · Italy Ion Codreanu · United States

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