Brain Waves In Germany Around The 1920's

In Germany around the 1920’s, a psychiatrist by the name Hans Berger, Created a tool that would help researchers study and measure the rhythmic electrical activity in the brain. This tool would pick up the brain waves and create an EEG or electroencephalogram. This device has played an important role in the studying of our sleeping patterns. There are two different brain waves that occur when entering sleep. There is the beta brain waves that generate fast while preparing for you slumber and then as soon as you lay down your brain activity, along with motor skill and physical activity begins to decrease and relax. During this period, you begin the next phase of alpha brain waves which are slower brain activity. This leads to the next process