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According to this article, Parts of the brain shut down when certain people listen to influential people. This could explain why many are not as skeptical as others in certain situations. Perhaps even why normally skeptical people fall for scams.

Local Calgarian Dr Randy Tyson, from the Canadian Research Council, will be giving a presentation titled MRI: Window to the Soul. Dr. Tyson will give an overview of how MRI works, why it is so useful in diagnosing disease and how it can be used to study thought using recent examples from the...

I suspected as much. P.S. Smoking was recently banned in Tennessee restaurants. Yay!

(With apologies for the bad sci-fi title) http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070205/full/070205-13.html

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What would happen if a person had a piece of metal in their brain. Like shrapnel, and they walked into the MRI-field. They'd die on the spot right? Or would they suffer a hemmorage, and need to be carted away, or what? Just curious; I already had an MRI done. This is just a question. -INRM

A very public squabble is developing over the decision to award this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine to two developers of Magnetic Resonance Imaging but not the actual inventor. The man who did not win Here's the juicy bit: So what do you think? Should the committee let Dr. Damadian's...

I just had one awhile back... its amazing technology! I am curious how something so non-invasive could produce such highly detailed pictures of the inside of someone's body?