Show Electric Waves Naves inHuman in I Human luman Brain Arc Are Studied by Science I Currents Vary During Sleep or Wakefulness I IS TS S LIFE electrical I Through the ages man has tried to discover or to explain I that mysterious something which is life the life the force that I animates a mass of blood bones and flesh At one olle time when I I scientists were rapidly learning I one fact fac after fter another about the composition structure and I function unction of the human body I optimistic persons were sure I that these scientists would fi finally finally iii fi- nally unravel the wonder of wonders wonders life life itself The idea that scientists might some day use this knowledge to build a robot and then find a way to breathe life into him film will apparently apparently apparently ap ap- never be realized Life Is Mystery The miracle of life Itself the fact that to certain material processes proc esses eases consciousness is added can neVer newer be explained Prof Prot Hans Bans HansBerger Berger of the University of Jena Germany now declares in a report to Research and Progress Professor Berger is the man who started the wave of experiments on what are popularly known as brainwaves brainwaves brain brainwaves waves These are the tracings on paper of the electric currents which arise In the brain All AU activities of life are accompanied tiled nied by electrical impulses the current current cur rent thus produced being called caned bio blo- electric The English scientist Caton aton was the first who showed that hat electric currents arise in the brains trains of ot the higher animals dogs and apes Fifty years later in 1024 1924 Professor Protes sor Berger showed the existence of I these currents in man and devised a method of leading these currents off oft from the brain so that they can be amplified and charted charled or recorded record record- ed appearing as w wavy vy lines on paper Brain Always Alwa's Active Recent study has shown that these waves vary during sleep consciousness conscious ness mental activity under the in influence influence in in- fluence of anesthetics or sedative drugs and in certain diseases Though the waves are different un un- der differing conditions they are I always present showing that the human brain like the human heart heartIs Is continually active Study of the currents from the brain will It is hoped valuable Information about various mental disorders much as similar studies I of the currents from the heart tell I certain important things about the condition of that organ But apparently apparently ap they will not shed much light on the question of what makes life No answer can be given Professor sor B Berger Barger says to the question of at whether th the electric tension that is seen In to the main vibrations of the brain waves merely accompanies I the vital processes or whether it does Just the work necessary to produce consciousness |