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What Lurks Behind the Brain Image: Differentiating Neuroscience from Neuro-Bunk


By KBL781 - Posted on 01 December 2009

TitleWhat Lurks Behind the Brain Image: Differentiating Neuroscience from Neuro-Bunk
Publication TypeAudiovisual
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsAguirre, Geoffrey K.
PublisherUniversity of Pennsylvania, Center for Neuroscience and Society
KeywordsBIOETHICS , JOURNALISM , neuroscience , Public Engagement and Science
Abstract

This talk, given by Dr. Geoffrey K. Aguirre, assistant professor of neurology and member of the Center for Functional Neuroimaging at Penn., focuses on the way in which pictures of the brain, or neuroimaging, is used in the popular press and in areas other than neuroscience, and problems in the interpretation of these images.

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Available through the Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

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