“They handle anything and everything that you could ever imagine-from neonates to people who are 110 years old. “I wanted to get all the experience I could, and I knew working at DHMC would be invaluable toward that goal,” Spelas said. Most recently, she spent over a decade at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC). Spelas is a highly regarded EEG tech with extensive expertise, which she now brings to Cheshire. Once a provider orders an EEG, Cheshire’s EEG tech, Anne Spelas, R.EEG.T, will contact the patient directly to schedule an appointment, review the test, and answer questions. A Cheshire neurologist who specializes in EEGs reads the data, and the report is available within five business days.
A full-time, Registered Electroencephalographic Technologist runs tests. The test is used to diagnose or detect any of the following: brain tumor, brain damage, brain dysfunction, epilepsy, head trauma, inflammation of the brain (encephalitis), stroke, sleep disorders, and other seizure disorders or diagnoses.Īppointments for this test are now available at Cheshire Monday through Friday. Sometimes a combination of the two can be useful to get an overall picture of brain health.Cheshire Medical Center’s extensive range of on-site programs gives patients in the Monadnock Region access to an impressive breadth of services close to home-and we’ve just added more with a state-of-the-art electroencephalogram (EEG) and expanded Neurology department.Īn electroencephalogram (EEG) is a diagnostic test that measures electrical activity in a patient’s brain using small metal discs (electrodes) attached to the scalp.ĮEG tests are ordered by neurologists, primary care providers, emergency care providers, and hospitalists. This however is not so useful for detecting consistency as it relies on change. Other techniques such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) detect changes in blood flow and can do so with more location accuracy in the brain. Modern EEG equipment is getting much better and more accurate.Īlthough EEG is the most common measure of brain activity, it is worth pointing out that measuring brainwaves from outside the head is like trying to pick out an individual instrument from an orchestra by listening through the wall of an indoor theatre.īrain states can be approximated and partially located, but pin point accuracy is unrealistic.
The reason higher Gamma waves are harder to measure is that the higher the frequency of a brainwave, the closer it gets to frequencies of ‘noise’ generated by electrical equipment and body movement. Some higher brainwaves can be more challenging to measure like Gamma waves (not to be confused with Gamma radiation) which are typically 38Hz and higher. Again mainly for finding ways of measuring and or potentially treating medical issues but also for research into peak states, learning and creativity to name a few.īy learning what brain patterns are present during successful mental and physical activities., technology can be used to enhance those patterns in people who lack them.īiofeedback., where EEG is used to act as a training method to teach people to go into meditative states or states of high performance.īrainwave Entrainment., where an external stimulus such as flickering light is used to synchronise and ‘entrain’ the patterns of brain activity to the chosen external source of frequency. The other main use of EEG recordings is for scientific research. Typical applications for an EEG usually involve testing for patterns associated with medical challenges such as:īrain damage from a stroke or head impact.Īge related problems such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.
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