Arduino EEG / Scanner

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Hi all,

Firstly, hope i'm posting this in the correct forum. I'm new here so be nice! I've just started my final year in college and we have to undertake a final year project / thesis type thing. The title i have chosen is as follows;

"The use of binaural and paraliminal audio in hypnotic techniques"

I was going to study how sound can be used to impact different areas/hemispheres of the brain and study alpha/beta/delta and theta brainwave patterns for their use in stimulating the brain into changed states for therapeutic and learning uses.

Cutting to the chase, I was wondering with the help of an Arduino board whether I could make some sort of brain scanner / EEG type thing, obviously it doesn't have to be perfect but just something that would allow me to get some readings.

If anyone has any ideas the help would be appreciated,

Many thanks,

Liam

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The thesis title sounds interestering - wish you best of luck with it :0)

About the Arduino.. hmm.. never thought about such a thing as an EEG, but i would guess that the resolution of the analog ports might be too low to allow the screening of 'brain waves'. I dont know if there is a way to amplify the raw reading, but if this barrier could be overcome i dont see no problem using the arduino as interface for such a thing.

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Cheers for the reply :slight_smile: a friend in my course is quite familiar with the arduino board and mentioned the same thing about amplifying the reading and then pointed me to the forums, if anyone else has any ideas that'd be great, cheers!

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See this thread:-
http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1227233207

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nice one, cheers man