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Electroencephalogram - EEG


Results and Values

What do the test results mean?

A normal EEG does not necessarily rule out abnormalities in the brain. However, the following conditions may be detected on an EEG:

  • Alzheimer's disease, a form of dementia
  • brain death
  • brain infection
  • brain tumors
  • chemical disturbances that affect the brain
  • degenerative neurological diseases
  • epilepsy
  • head injury
  • intracerebral hemorrhage, or bleeding into the brain
  • learning disabilities
  • metastasis, or spread, of cancer to the brain
  • sleep disorders
  • stroke

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