IntroductionIt is very important for health care professionals, It is important for health care staff to unparticularly nurses to understand emotional empaderstand patients' emotion and affective thetic understanding. Travelbee believed that nurschanges. Health care staffs should undering is accomplished through human-to-human relastand the patients' world as if this was his tionships. She defined empathy as the ability to her own. This is called "empathic undershare the patient's experience wherein one is able standing". To understand the emotional to predict the behavior of the patient. She also deprocess, electroencephalograph recording fined sympathy as going beyond empathy and oc-(EEG) was performed on five healthy parcurring when the nurse desires to alleviate the ticipants while watching the sentimental cause of the patient's suffering and is "involved but movie which was 24-minutes long. The not incapacitated". The nurses reaching the stage EEG changes during the emotional scenes of sympathy would be desirable (Travelbee, 1966). were collected and compared with emoMoreover, clinical experiences with patients and tionally stable states. By using power map families tell nurses the importance of empathic and spectrogram analyses of EEG, alpha understanding.bands at the occipital region were seen speElectroencephalograph recording (EEG) is one cifically among the emotionally impressed of the instruments generally used in the hospital to states. It seemed that the changes indicated examine encephalopathy and other brain disorders. the objective expression of empathic un-EEG measures electrical changes in neural actividerstanding. We suggest that EEG with ties and indicates the area where, and when the power map and spectrogram analyses is a action potential occurs (Musha, 1997), particularly useful fundamental tool for developing a when using power map and spectrogram analyses second generation computer system adof EEG. The brain controls not only thoughts and justed to the changes of one's mind. Howactions but also emotional states and autonomic ever, further examinations to remove artichanges with emotion. Musha et al. (1998) explain facts among the EEG results are needed. that the state of mind is supported by the brain activity and hence features of the state of mind appear in the scalp potentials of BEG. Davidson has suggested that resting BEG activity reflects the joint contribution of traits that are superimposed 978-1-4244-161 O-3/07/$25.OO©C2007IEEE 514