Strange, inexplicable feelings often accompany life-and-death situations. Face to face with one’s own mortality, people often feel as though time slows down, or that their life flashes before their ...

Jena, Germany, 1924: Working in near-isolation and with painstaking tediousness, the psychiatrist Hans Berger observes rhythmic electrical activity from the scalp of human subjects. He is convinced ...

This year is the centennial of the discovery of human brain waves. Few people know the story of that startling finding, because the true story was suppressed and lost to history. Almost two decades ...

This is a guest post by Lev Tankelevitch, one of my PhD students. He is currently using MEG to explore reward-guided attention at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain activity. This article is also cross ...

An exhibit of material depicting Berger's discovery is now on display in the rotunda of the Boston Medical Library through the kindness of Dr. Frederic A. Gibbs. Select the format you want to export ...