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Review
. 2025 Feb:170:132-135.
doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.11.021. Epub 2024 Dec 19.

1924-2024: First centennial of EEG

Paolo M Rossini  1 , Jonathan Cole  2 , Walter Paulus  3 , Ulf Ziemann  4 , Robert Chen  5
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Review

1924-2024: First centennial of EEG

Paolo M Rossini et al. Clin Neurophysiol. 2025 Feb.
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Abstract

On July 6th of 1924 Hans Berger -a German psychiatrist- first recorded electric signals from the human brainvia scalp electrodes. This date marks the beginning of Electroencephalography. In this review a representative panel of past and present Officers of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology (IFCN) and of its Official Journal briefly summarizes the past, present and future of Electroencephalographic and related neurophysiological techniques' impact and the role of the IFCN in global collaboration, education, standardization, research innovation, and clinical practice.

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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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