Tag: BRAINSCAN

Yes. We actually watched these movies. We suffered through them for you. We tracked them down in video stores and on Netflix, and sorted through piles of rubbish and even the Youtubes. We watched them all, and this is what we have gleaned: technology, guys, is scary. It causes addiction, it connects us with weirdos, and it is responsible, we suppose, for Emmerich-style mass destruction. Yet, ...

Last month, a Brooklyn lawyer attempted to make legal history by using a lie-detection brain scan as evidence in a courtroom trial. At the time, neuroscientists raised questions about the reliability of fMRI brain scans, while legal experts were more keen on the idea of having sophisticated technology play a greater role in determining trial outcomes. Now, however, the push to allow the scans in a ...

In a story that is guaranteed to give us nightmares for a good week, the Guardian reports that a Belgian man whom doctors diagnosed as comatose 23 years ago was, in fact, conscious the entire time. Following a nearly fatal car crash in 1983, Rom Houben was believed to be in a "vegetative state," incapable of feeling or hearing anything. Three years ago, though, neurologist Steven Laureys decided ...