Neuroimaging
Doctor Bridges Gap Between Mind and Machine
For Dr. Anthony Ritaccio, the idea of being a human-cyborg isn’t just something of science fiction books, but a real world possibility. Ritaccio was born without his right hand, and through his work, as the director of the Epilepsy and Human Brain Mapping Program at the Albany Medical Center and J. Spencer Standish Professor of Neurology at […]
New Guidelines Help Find Alzheimer’s Earlier
Alzheimer’s disease affects millions of people worldwide; it’s often a disease that is undetectable until it’s too late. However, a new set of national guidelines are being released that will help catch signs of the disease earlier. David Shenk, author of “The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Portrait of an Epidemic,” explains the latest guidelines. The guidelines concern […]
In a modern-age whodunnit, the brain is used as evidence in an Indian trial
This past summer, a woman was given a life sentence for murder after prosecutors strapped her to memory-scanning electrodes and ran a test called Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature, or BEOS. Could this be coming to America anytime soon?
Debate grows over the over-interpretation and misuse of fMRI scans
Function MRI, or fMRI, promises to map and discover new patterns of brain activity that were previously inaccessible. But are scientists so caught up in the possibilities of modern neuroscience that they are missing something? Guest: Jonah Lehrer, author of ‘Proust Was a Neuroscientist’