RF Annual Report - 1935 - The Rockefeller Foundation

144 THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
Emma Pendleton Bradley Home
Electroencephalography
An appropriation of $46,500 has been made to
the Emma Pendleton Bradley Home, East
Providence, Rhode Island, toward special research
in electroencephalography under the direction
of Dr. Herbert H. Jasper during the
three-year period September 15, 1935, to September
14, 1938. This research is related to the
program of both the natural and the medical
science divisions of The
Rockefeller Foundation.
It involves the study of brain potentials in
the normal and in the diseased brain by electrical
recording from electrodes placed upon the
head. It offers a promising method of attack upon
many problems in psychology, neurology, and
psychiatry. The Emma Pendleton Bradley Home
is under the general administrative direction of
Butler Hospital, Dr. Jasper, director of research,
is also an assistant professor at Brown University.
At
present the hospital accommodates
about fifty patients.
During the past year two
amplifier-oscillograph
recording systems have been perfected
which permit simultaneous recording of the
electrical discharges of the brain from different
parts of the head. Records taken from a region
of the head beneath which the brain is known to
be pathological are markedly different from rec-
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