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Ep15 "What should happen when someone with a brain tumor breaks the law?"

Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman

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The Limits of Brain Imaging

Our best technology for imaging human brains is very limited. We're not directly imaging the activity in the brain, but instead the blood flow. All we can get from it is that there was something happening in this cluster of tens of millions of neurons at the scale of seconds. The relationship between a person's brain and their behavior can generally be totally opaque.

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