Is There A Brainwave 'Fingerprint'?
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 19:20
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study of electroencephalography (EEG) readings published in the Journal of Neuroscience says that despite the major neural overhaul underway during adolescence, most teens maintained a unique and consistent pattern of underlying brain oscillations. They say this lends a new level of support to the idea that people produce a kind of brainwave "fingerprint." They recruited 19 volunteers who were 9 or 10 years old and 26 who were 15 or 16 years old to sleep for two consecutive nights in the lab while EEG electrodes recorded oscillations in their brains during both REM and non-REM sleep. For each child she repeated the measurements about two years later. read more