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The first human electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings were made by Hans Berger in 1924, but the first German-language publications date back to 1929 and had little circulation. Nevertheless, what Berger described soon spread to both England and North America, where—particularly in the United States—numerous EEG Laboratories were organized from the 1930s. This neurophysiological diagnostic method rapidly became refined because of the contribution of excellent neurologists and neurophysiologists, who worked in close collaboration with bioengineers, so that increasingly high-performance equipment was available and useful, especially for the study of epilepsies. In this chapter, we have focused on comparing the development of EEG Laboratories in the United States and Canada (mainly by Jasper, Gibbs, Lennox, and all their collaborators) with what happened a few years later in Europe, mainly by Gastaut and the Marseille School, since it would be difficult to precisely describe the development of clinical electroencephalography in the field of epileptology at the international level.

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The Development of Most Important Schools of Clinical Electroencephalography and Epileptology in North America and Europe

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    2025年

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  • Oriano Mecarelli

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The first human electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings were made by Hans Berger in 1924, but the first German-language publications date back to 1929 and had little circulation. Nevertheless, what Berger described soon spread to both England and North America, where—particularly in the United States—numerous EEG Laboratories were organized from the 1930s. This neurophysiological diagnostic method rapidly became refined because of the contribution of excellent neurologists and neurophysiologists, who worked in close collaboration with bioengineers, so that increasingly high-performance equipment was available and useful, especially for the study of epilepsies. In this chapter, we have focused on comparing the development of EEG Laboratories in the United States and Canada (mainly by Jasper, Gibbs, Lennox, and all their collaborators) with what happened a few years later in Europe, mainly by Gastaut and the Marseille School, since it would be difficult to precisely describe the development of clinical electroencephalography in the field of epileptology at the international level.