brain scan

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Kim Kardashian says a recent brain scan left her stunned, after a celebrity psychiatrist told her the frontal lobes of her brain show unusually low activity, a finding sometimes tied to chronic stress and cognitive overload.

From Salon

While this specialized type of magnetic resonance imaging has transformed cognitive neuroscience, it isn’t a mind-reading machine: neuroscientists can’t look at a brain scan and tell what someone was seeing, hearing or thinking in the scanner.

From Scientific American

The title acronym translates as “nuclear magnetic resonance,” the meaning of which becomes clear when an important peripheral character undergoes a brain scan, with none-too-promising results.

From Los Angeles Times

“I started walking a little stiffly, I was shuffling my feet and I went to a neurologist and they gave me a brain scan and I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” Lewis said.

From Los Angeles Times

He also got a brain scan because he was shuffling his feet when he walked.

From Seattle Times