fmri
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Geneticists Are Untangling The Mystery Of Left-Handedness
A series of genetic variants can influence handedness, according to a new paper.
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That Viral Story Of An ‘Awakened’ Vegetative Patient Serves As A Cautionary Tale
Medicine is perfect for heartwarming stories. Some close relative is facing the most hopeless prognosis, such as being in a vegetative state. Someone tries a wild treatment, and boom, people are crying, the relative is awake, and the headlines go viral. But science doesn’t really work this way.
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We Need Ground Rules On How To Keep Our Brain Data Private
There’s still no technology in the world that lets you listen in on someone’s thoughts. But fMRI advances are making it easier than ever to measure, interpret, and even reconstruct brain activity, and a growing market of wearables with electroencephalographic (EEG) components and brain-computer interfaces means that there are more ways to map our brainwaves…
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I Don’t Want To Live In A World Where Machines Can Read My Mind. Or Do I?
Researchers equipped with fMRI machines have shown that they can link specific brainwave functions to specific objects, ideas or emotions. What they see as innovation, I see as the goddamn thought police running amuck in 30 years.