Tag: fMRI

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

_{Michael Egnor
April 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, brain activity, comatose, consciousness, Elon Musk, fMRI, Neuralink, neuroscience, patients}

A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 6, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, anthropology, brain, brain imaging, compassion, fMRI, materialism, medicine, neurology, neuroscience, prayer}

The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?

_{Michael Egnor
June 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 29, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, brain, brain injuries, consciousness, Cornell University, fMRI, matter, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Oxford University, The Guardian}

Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?

_{Michael Egnor
May 29, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blood flow, brain, brain activity, fMRI, Harvard University, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, researchers}

Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

_{Michael Egnor
April 14, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 10, 2015

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __nedited, cerebral cortex, fMRI, gender, junk science, moral agency, phrenology, public policy, Research, scientific racism, sexual dimorphism, transgenderism}

At the Intersection of Phrenology and Public Policy

_{Michael Egnor
December 10, 2015

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Reproductive Science

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A recent PNAS study is the latest iteration of dial-a-science: just call and order science to fit your favored narrative. Read More ›