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Drug To Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease Receives FDA Approval

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lily just got FDA approval on a chemical that would enable clinicians to detect a biological marker [...]

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Brain Scans Detect Autism In Six Month Olds

Autism is normally diagnosed in children at around 18 months to 2 years of age, when parents see odd behavior [...]

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Technological Telepathy? Scientists Scan Your Brain To Watch The Movies Playing In Your Mind

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley can now read your mind and project the images you think of onto [...]

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Brain Scans On The Go – EEG Hooked Up To Your Smart Phone

Human brains are like wild animals, you learn more when you can watch them in their natural habitat. That’s why [...]

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Autism Diagnosed with a Fifteen Minute Brain Scan (Video)

A new technique developed at King’s College London uses a fifteen minute MRI scan to diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD). [...]

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Is The Movie ‘Inception’ Getting Closer to Reality? (video)

In the upcoming movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a criminal with the technology to project himself into the dreams of [...]

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fMRI Used as Evidence in Sentencing for Murderer

Magnetic resonance imaging has been hailed as a possible means of creating the ultimate lie detector. Yet the first publicized [...]

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BCI2000 Lets Your Mind Control Computers

Usually wearing a silly hat and staring at the computer doesn’t do anything besides make you lonely, but now with [...]

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Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

When Descartes said “I think therefore I am” he probably didn’t know that he was answering a security question. Using [...]

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Reading People’s Actual Thoughts With a Machine

60 Minutes just ran an excellent segment on how fMRI is being used by the Brain Image Analysis Research Group [...]

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