can an EEG pick up people's hallucinations and delusions and actual thoughts
2007-10-23 04:34:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
can it tell if your suffering from a psychotic break?
2007-10-23 04:44:49 · update #1
Not in a from that could be translated into what a person was actually thinking. However, it can messure changes in brain activity that may indicate for example that someone was having a dream or any other irregular event such as perhaps hallucinations.
Doctors used EEG to messure my brain activity in relation to different stimuli (light, sound, temperature etc) and were able to diagnose Epilepsy and prescribe the exact medication required to prevent further siezures.
2007-10-23 04:54:50 · answer #1 · answered by steve 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, an EEG is rather like attempting to artwork out which prepare is working listening to the London Underground on the exterior. All you're measuring is ameliorations in electric currents interior the strategies. As yet those won't be able to be directly on the subject of particular strategies.
2016-10-07 11:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It shows abnormalities in the brain waves. For instance, when they do the EEG, you normally lie still and rest. Then they have you do certain things to see how this changes your brain waves. Its pretty cool.
2007-10-23 04:42:42 · answer #3 · answered by wife2denizmoi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋