EEG experimental ideas by Justyna Needham

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Recording reaction time

Idea

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To measure the difference in brain waves with people with lower motor function than people with good motor function

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In dementia care - we could monitor their waves when asking them to do a task

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different reactions in electrical activity to positive and negative words - word association

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Sleep experiment, watch brain waves over an 8hr sleep

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Measuring the different effects of emotions using different stimuli and watch brain waves

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Measuring eye reactions to social problems in people with anxiety

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To see what impact meditation has

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brain waves in people who’s comprehension areas are damaged to see their brain waves when reading

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brain waves when a person is drunk or brain waves when the state is altered

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reaction time regarding alcohol intake

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how sleep affects brain activity:
measure different amounts of sleep and see how the brain waves differ (eg 3 hours, 5 hours, and 8 hours)

EEG

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Can a person better alter/control their brain activity to an emotional response while they’re viewing their own brain wave chart?

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seeing how meditation effects the brain

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Sleep experiments

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seeing how frightening images may effect someone’s brain when they are exposed to them

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Measure what parts of the brain are active before sleep to help find causes of sleep disorders

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experiment the difference in reaction time between elderly people, and youths.

Observing the brain activity differences between people with brain damage and those without.

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A possible, more interesting measure, would be to measure the differences in people both before AND after sustaining brain damage

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how likely distractions are to happen to people with dyslexia, anxiety etc

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Being in a stressful environment

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Reaction times comparing someone with brain damage and without brain damage

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To see if playing music whilst someone sleeps effects brain activity

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How listening to music affects the brain during sleep

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To see how nightmares affect brain activity

Memory or cognitive task

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How sleep disorders such as sleep paralysis are reflected by signals in the brain

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Research the response of people's brain activity when they listen to something they enjoy vs something they're not fond of. Can compare this with people with a different music taste.

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seeing whether studying listening to others talking hinders concentration or not

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Sleep studies

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looking at family members compared to looking at strangers

PHOBIAS

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looking at brain activity when exposed to fear/ phobia trigger. Can also use after therapies to treat phobia and see if brain activity changed; fear levels/ reaction

EEG

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Could be used to measure emotional response to stimuli

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Observing the effect of mindfulness/meditation.

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How dreams affect brain activity/different kinds of dreams

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Being put under a stressful experience and then learning relaxation techniques

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Observing effect of drugs on brain

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reaction times with people on drugs, taken alcohol or tired

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Check for unusual activity

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How specific images/ words can effect the brain activity

Guilt study

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Confess something the participant feels guilty about and see how the brain reacts.

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Measuring the physical reaction to temperature change in neurodiverse vs neurotypical people.

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Neurodivegent vs neurotypical brain activity

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Brain dead?

Memory

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To analyse the brain activity after drinking the legal drink driving limit

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Use an EEG machine to compare and contrast brain waves between writing vs reading activities

How ADHD medication effects the brain of both someone with ADHD and without ADHD

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How horror movies effect sleep

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to test what time each sleep stage occurs

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to observe people in comas brain activity

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Measure brain waves when someone is sleeping

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Looking at how brainwaves look like in neurodivigent people and how it respond to different things

EEG

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a study investigating reaction time would be good as it has a high temporal resolution

Ideas

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To measure the brain waves of people who have disorders for example parkinsons or epilepsy

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Reactions times and processing speeds for people with dementia

neurotype

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Can measure the brain activity in neurotypical participants vs neurodiverse participants when asking them to carry out different tasks or when exposing them to different stimuli. i.e. certain tasks may require much more focus for nd people rather than for nt people

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recording responses to traumatic events

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Recording brain movement with different stimulus.

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Recording different visual sexual stimuli

use a EEG while doing a reaction test to see the time of brain activity and the level of activation with the reaction

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Sleep studies - see how the brain responds to feeling and emotions during dreams

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To test brainwaves of people with ME/CFS

use a ERP to see reactions to certain stimuli like some news stories to see initial reactions to either positive or negative stimuli

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2024-10-10 11:46:47 UTC

Looking into the affects of Alzheimer’s