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Asked by anon-375028 to Imogen on 20 Nov 2023.
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Imogen Green answered on 20 Nov 2023:
The technology I use just tells us which areas of the brain are active, so I haven’t really discovered anything weird inside the brain yet! But one weird thing I have found is that even a tiny bit of hair can disrupt the light from getting from the scanning cap into the brain. So we have to spend a long time carefully moving the hair out of the way with a little hook – sometimes we spend almost as much time doing this as doing the actual experiment!
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David M commented on :
…a tumour in a friend’s brain. I spent 20 minutes in agony, thinking about what to tell him…only for him to come out of the scanner and calmly tell me that it was benign (it wasn’t growing anymore, and had been found when he was 8). These ‘incidental findings’ – things you find that you’re not looking for – can be super stressful! Best, Dave