I was told I'm not dead I am Electroencephalographically Challenged, what does this mean?
2007-02-04 11:11:33 · 6 answers · asked by msx_00_1 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
The person is saying that not all their `circuits' are working in their brain at that time.
The word is usually used as a noun, and references an instrument where they take wires and tape them to your head and scalp and monitor brain wave activity. This is commonly done for people who go into a coma, also for people who are doing sleep therapy.
If a person is not dead and thought to be, what might cause that type of diagnosis? The person was in a comma or the person was asleep. Both the person can come out of, but while in that state they are having low brain activity.
"Vegging out" is a similar jargon for the idea.
Why did the person choose this word? To be erudite? He had the word in his vocabulary and was looking for a way to use it in a sentence? Or as a cry for help - as though saying somethings wrong with my brain ( drugs, depression, uncontrolled rage, confusion, lust, love) ?
After all the word `challenged' implies one being up against an obstacle.
The pre-frontal lobe (as in the brain), which helps us not to act impulsively continues to develop into the late teens for some. Underdeveloped pre-frontal lobes result in more impulsive behaviour- leading a person to say: "Why the hell did I do that? That was stupid of me. I should have known better?" Sometimes their is a sense of stupidity, guilt, embarrassment and even anger towards oneself when one performs a `stupid- un-thought through action.' Your friend maybe experiencing such behaviour in themselves.
Finnally I think the phrase subtly inplies that the person does not too much responsability if any at all, they are excusing themselves with a medical reason.
Hope this helps.
2007-02-04 11:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Crackers probably
It actually means a record of the electrical activity of the brain
2007-02-04 19:15:27 · answer #2 · answered by Scotty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its an apparatus for detecting and recording brain waves, so I guess your still with us ;) good on you!
any ideas about fluxpattern?
2007-02-04 19:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by fluxpattern® 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your head is just about to fall off.
2007-02-04 19:17:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It means you have an abnormal EEG.
2007-02-04 19:18:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
tell you the truth i don't know i don't even know how to pronounce it....
peace out and good luck with that!
2007-02-04 19:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by Nikki 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋