http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/ Neuroscience and psychology tricks to find out what's going on inside your brain. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:27:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5364 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:02:22 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5364 PJ: At least where I work the prohibition on pregnant women is explicitly described as a precaution only, everyone involved agrees there is no evidence that it causes harm, but “better safe than sorry”.
It’s not a big deal because we don’t exclude women who could be pregnant, only women who actually know that they are.
On the other hand if we’re giving people any kind of drug, we require pregnancy tests.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5363 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:15:11 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5363 Of course it also makes you wonder why so much time and effort is spent on avoiding scanning pregnant women in adult fMRI studies when there is ethical approval and active research scanning foetuses.

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5362 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:16:52 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/brain-scanning-unborn-babies/#comment-5362 Just one word – Wow.

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