Past and present of the children's electroencephalography in Toruń

The beginnings of children's electroencephalography in Toruń can be seen in the period after the Second World War. On 15th May 1945 scientific researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of Stefan Batory University in Vilnius came to Toruń in hope of recreating the faculty at NCU (Nicolaus Copernicus University). The assistant professor Janina Hurynowicz started the organisation of the Neurophysiology and Comparative Physiology Institute at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the newly created NCU. In 1949, along with the liquidation of the Institute's Branch, the Central Regional Psychic Health Centre was created, where the management was taken over by Prof. Hurynowicz. Thanks to the efforts of Hurynowicz, one of the first EEGs in Poland came to Toruń. It was an American Rham 6. The students of Hurynowicz in the field of EEG were the professors Leszek Janiszewski, Władysław Traczyk and also Juliusz Narebski, who after the death of Hurynowicz was managing the laboratory for children and teenagers. The students of Prof. Narebski were Genowefa Olearczuk and Wanda Waczyńska. In 1987 the first EEG laboratory for children was organised in the Specialist Clinic in the Children's Hospital in Toruń by the chief of the Developmental Neurology Clinic Marian Lysiak, PhD, M.D. The lab was managed by Jolanta Kujawska. She underwent trainings in the first EEG Laboratory for Children and Teenagers in Poland organised in the Mother and Child Institute in Warsaw in 1950 under the supervision of Prof. Anna Koślacz-Folga and Michaela Pakszys, M.D. In 1988, after having been moved to the newly built children's hospital complex of the Children's Hospital and the obtaining of a modern Pegasus, the children's EEG made another leap in its development. Kukawska qualified for the licence (1994).