The Berger rhythm: potential changes from the occipital lobes in man, by E.D. Adrian and B.H.C. Matthews (From the Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge). Brain 1934: 57; 355–385.

摘要

In a series of papers dating from 1929, Hans Berger has describedn‘a rhythmic oscillation of potential at a frequency of 10 cycles pernsecond ... detected in the human subject by electrodes applied tonthe head ... present when the subject lies quietly with eyes closednand disappearing when attention is fully occupied’. Because DrnBerger finds that the waves are larger if needles reaching thenperiosteum lie over foramina in the skull rather than the intactncranium, he concludes that this remarkable effect derives fromnthe cerebral cortex, and that it reflects a fundamental activity ofnthe brain. But there are unresolved issues, and Professor (Lord)nAdrian and Dr (Sir Bryan) Matthews intend to repeat Berger’snexperiments: to show whether or not these potentials do indeednarise from the cortex; to reveal their nature and the structures