http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/26/the-fmri-smackdown-cometh/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Mon, 20 May 2013 15:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/26/the-fmri-smackdown-cometh/#comment-19955 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:23:20 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/the-fmri-smackdown-cometh/#comment-19955 As a fMRI-scientist I have to say I think the controversy is a bit hyped-up – nobody’s really questioning the validity of fMRI as an experimental technique, but of course a lot of the applications that it’s used for are maybe slightly dodgy. Like every other technique, you can use it for good or bad science.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2008/06/26/the-fmri-smackdown-cometh/#comment-6540 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:49:52 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/the-fmri-smackdown-cometh/#comment-6540 Last month’s issue of Wired also had an article about brain scanning. The article was authored by a psychiatrist who, as part of the research for the article, had his own brain scanned by Bob Amen, who’s been doing this sort of thing for awhile. The article was a pretty good layman’s overview of the limits of this science.

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