brain scans
Pictures of minds
Brain scans are medical images of the brain produced by various technologies—CT scans, MRIs, PET scans.
Doctors use them to detect tumors, bleeding, or structural abnormalities.
In research, brain scans reveal which regions activate during specific tasks: The brain scans showed increased activity in the prefrontal cortex during decision-making.
- SPECTGamma-emitting radiotracer imaging method
- MRIMagnetic body imaging
- EEGNeural activity recording
- cerebral cortexBrain's outer neural sheet
- diagnosisIdentification of illness
neuroimaging · blood flow · hippocampus · gray matter · neural pathways · white matter · brainstem · amygdala · thought patterns · mind reading · lie detector · DTI · radiology · CT · diagnostic imaging · cross-section · contrast dye · neurons
- Neuropsychologycognition, memory test, cognitive test, executive function, working memory
- Psychology ResearchStanford prison experiment, Pavlov's dogs, marshmallow test, classical conditioning, operant conditioning
- Brain MeasuresEEG, fMRI, MRI images, neural activity, PET scans
- brain science historyBroca, Golgi, phrenology, Huxley, nerve impulse
- science newspopular science, black holes, discovery, dinosaurs, research
- brain scienceneurons, synapses, neuron, cortex, neuropsychology
brain scansblood tests
Analyses of drawn samples
physical examination · questionnaires · autopsy · biopsy · genetic testing
brain scansintrospection
Observing one's own mind
psychoanalysis · talk therapy · dream interpretation · gut feeling · folk psychology