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An important historical fact is that the very beginning of the field of human electroencephalography (EEG) emerged directly from the field of psychiatry. Hans Berger was a biologically oriented psychiatrist with strong interests in the relationships between mind and body (Gibbs and Gibbs 1950).
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Boutros, N.N. (2013). Philosophical Differences in Standard EEG Interpretation Between Neurology and Psychiatry: A Historical Perspective. In: Standard EEG: A Research Roadmap for Neuropsychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04444-6_1
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