<p>My parent went to a Psychologist because of anxiety and panic attacks. Nicely i knew that she uses EEG for diagnostics. So he went to see her, but he told me that during the EEG she asked him for 2 task:</p>

<p>1 Count backward from 100 to zero.</p>

<p>2 Listen a list of words (eg. college, father, mother, etc.). According to the psychologist in this way we'll locate if one of this word is related to a psychological trauma due to some EEG variation during the listening.</p>

<p>I've looking for some references about those. I understand that the first task is some related to attention and memory-recall functions but i didn't found anything about the second task.</p>

<p>Any idea?</p>

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Where did you find out about the purpose of the first task? Could you include this reference/link?
Steven Jeuris
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I found it here https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/10768/why-would-i-be-asked-to-count-backwards-by-3-from-100-in-a-psychological-test and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_sevens
Felipe Vega
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Thank you! You can edit this into your answer; don't just paste it at the end, but incorporate it as if you would have included it the first time around. Comments on Stack Exchange sites are temporary.
Steven Jeuris
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Detecting trauma with EEG?
Felipe Vega
# Detecting trauma with EEG?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-01)

My parent went to a Psychologist because of anxiety and panic attacks. Nicely i knew that she uses EEG for diagnostics. So he went to see her, but he told me that during the EEG she asked him for 2 task:

1 Count backward from 100 to zero.

2 Listen a list of words (eg. college, father, mother, etc.). According to the psychologist in this way we'll locate if one of this word is related to a psychological trauma due to some EEG variation during the listening.

I've looking for some references about those. I understand that the first task is some related to attention and memory-recall functions but i didn't found anything about the second task.

Any idea?

**Tags:** eeg, anxiety, trauma

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Where did you find out about the purpose of the first task? Could you include this reference/link?  
> **username_0**: I found it here https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/10768/why-would-i-be-asked-to-count-backwards-by-3-from-100-in-a-psychological-test and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_sevens  
> **username_1**: Thank you! You can edit this into your answer; don't just paste it at the end, but incorporate it as if you would have included it the first time around. Comments on Stack Exchange sites are temporary.  

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