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Letter: Skullcaps offer closer contact with brainwaves

Published 6 February 2019

From Samuel Levy, Somerville, Massachusetts, US

Jim Skeels suggests that neural activity could perhaps be recorded closer to the source through a dental implant, which may also be less obtrusive than a full EEG cap on the skull (Letters, 1 December 2018). This is an interesting idea, but a midline slice of the skull shows that a tooth implant would be further away from the brain than a skullcap and signals would have to go through more bone.

Issue no. 3216 published 9 February 2019

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