How to Examine a Brain Alive?

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In the seventies and eighties, a new tool comes along called the mri. The food and drug administration to day approved a new kind of diagnostic machine that takes detailed pictures inside the body. Now doctors will have to learn to look at the body in a completely new way.

Will scientists ever fully understand the human brain? In their quest for knowledge, they’ve tried knives, magnets, computers, blood, and even a good metaphor.

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