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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What kills me a little is when someone has to come up with some nebulous acronym that we're all supposed to know but no one ever defines it at the beginning of the document. In EEG we like to change the name of what are now known as lateralized periodic discharges. I have a document with about 25 different terms that all describe different terminology that's been used to describe that EEG finding.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Meanwhile I'm in here thinking, I wonder what EEG means?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure but I think that comment might be clever satire

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

It turns out it wasn't, which might be even more hilarious

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

See how desensitized I am to that, electroencephalography. Electro- electronic, encephalo- head, graph- record, electronic head record, those wavy lines from the brain.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha, I was way off, the jargon made me think it was like Electrical EnGineering or something

It's funny how we just get used to the acronyms. Every industry has them, some of them even overlap

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

hehehe, CBT

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in psychology - Cognitve Behavioural Therapy. In bdsm - Cock and Ball Torture

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Reasonably obligatory xkcd?

https://xkcd.com/2501/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's when you put electrodes on someone's head and measure the electricity on the surface of their brain.