are picked by placing ducting plates (electrodes) at any two points on the surface of the body and measure with the help of a sensitive instrument. By using the bio-potentials they can provide the necessary monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment therapy for different organ origins. In the table below it shows the characteristics related to the brain. (table 1).
Bioelectric Signal Spectrum (Hz) Potential Range (µV) Sensing Devices Used Signal Origin
Electroencephalogram
(EEG) 0.1 to 100 2 to 200 Surface and needle electrodes. Neuronal activity of the brain.
Cerebral Potentials (Intracranial recorded) Pulse duration (0.6ms to 0.1s) 10 to 10,000 Deep needle electrodes.
Cerebrum of the brain.
Electromyogram (EMG)(Primary Signal) 5 to 2000 20 to 5,000 Surface and needle electrodes. Skin Muscles.
So coming back to the question of understanding the physiological parameters and their attribution being measured, the nerve cells regarding the CNS and the brain exist in a polarised state between -70m.V. and -110m.V. with an exact cell potential within the range showing the cell to be vulnerable to the stimulus that would give an outcome of regenerative breakdown. All cells within a formation rest at a normal polarised level of -90m.V. For example; if one cell was to depolarise from an external stimulus, the depolarisation will begin to affect the adjoining cells next to it causing a synapses between cells resulting in a change of the resting potential. If the resting potential is increased, a breakdown of the cell membrane will not occur and the impulse can be defined as taking an inhibitory effect. If the impulse arriving at the synapses reduces the resting potential, then this allows the cell to be more vulnerable of depolarisation and the impulse will have an excitatory effect on the
cell.
A single cell is influenced by synapses from numerous other cells some of which are excitatory and inhibitory potentials. They all play a role in opposing the possible effects on any area that may or may not cause depolarisation of a cell; the possible factor is the consistency of various impulses being received over time which will then balance the excitation and inhabitation between cells and show an outcome of frequency as important parameter.