Canadian scientist wants to make brain checkups routine: British Columbia-based neuroscientist Ryan D’Arcy is spearheading a push to make scanning brainwaves a crucial part of your normal checkup at the doctor’s office. D’Arcy his team at his NeuroTech Lab, based at Surrey Memorial Hospital, say they’ve designed a way to quantify and measure brain waves based on a scale of 30 (30 showing the best brain activity), eliminating some of the inaccuracies of the electroencephalogram, or EEG, which monitors electrical activity of the brain. This would allow doctors and scientists to track and measure your brainwaves over time and extract useful information from them. D’Arcy’s new system isn’t necessarily intended to help those with brain injuries, or at least, not only them. It’s about tracking and monitoring healthy people, in a manner similar to checking one’s blood pressure. While he insists to Vice: Motherboard that this tech should be in every GP’s office, but seemed to shrug off the crucial question of what to do with that data once it has been extracted. In other words, how would a healthy brain benefit from being scanned at every doctor’s office? Food for thought.