New Brain Scanners Can Identify A Painting A Student Is Looking At?

New Scientist Article Revision By Robert Weller

The state of the art in brain scanning has reached the level where the latest technology could identify the artist of a painting a client is looking at, New Scientist reports.

It shows an example of a PicassoPicasso and Dali viewed by an MRI through a brain.

Much more important in terms of brain scanning, which is being adopted by the Army to identify combat injuries that might escape early MRIs, is that it can find injuries that are the real cause for a veterans’ behavior. Often it is simply assigned to PTSD, though they can exist simultaneously. Or worse it is considered malingering.

There are several versions of scanners, including brain spect, FMI and CAT scan, as well as MRI.

A demonstration of 12 students shown dozens of Picassos and Dalis in front of MRIs confirmed the technology exists. The article didn’t identify the power of the MRIs, which is determined in Teslas, named after the European scientist who developed alternating current and many other scientific wonders.

I wonder where that science writer is who told me not to bother researching brain scanners because no treatment was possible for brain injuries? Well, of course they can be treated. If a person can only use one arm after a stroke it can be as simple as tying up the working arm and the brain will transfer the task to the lame arm. Voila. Tous les deux. Both work.

New Scientist said the accuracy of the MRI was higher among art students. It relied on activity in several brain regions, because it has a different code.

Bach lovers believe he embedded codes in his music. Dr. Oliver Sacks, a British-Born psychiatrist, has shown that music, for example, written by Bach generates more neural activity than music by Beethoven. God knows what Mozart would produce. Sacks’ latest book is on the incredible results of musical training, even as a result of an accident, “Musicophilia.” He talks of brainworms that can obsess a person’s head. Watch out for that catchy tune on YouTube.

Others called them earworms _ songs you couldn't get out of your head even if you banged your head against the wall. "We've Only Just Begun," written as a bank commercial by Paul Williams. The late Karen Carpenter made it a No. 1, and it has become one of the leading "Prothalamium," marriage songs, of all time.

A surgeon hit by lightning in a phone booth (remember landline phone booths) came within an instant of death but for the intervention of a nearby emergency room nurse who wouldn't let him die. He went on to become obsessed with the piano and reached accomplished levels.

His earlier book, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat,” has been turned into a one-act play.