If you’ve been reading this blog (What? You haven’t? Shame on you!), then you know I often refer to fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) experiments. The fMRI had its genesis at Mass General in 1991- when giant magnetics afforded us the ability to visualize activity in the brain. (This final result relied on the finding by Seiji Ogawa at Bell Labs that determined blood-oxygen-level dependence, the MRI contrast of blood deoxyhemoglobin [oxygen depleted red blood cells].)
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We need rose-colored glasses
My friend, Roberta Budvietas, wrote recently that being an optimist or a pessimist can create problems. I wrote in response I am an optimist, in spite of reality. It’s why I create new products- medical, environmental, and consumer- and want to help folks grow their businesses. Because if we don’t think things will be better, why would we try at all?
THIS IS RATED M (REALLY)
fMRI shows link between parietal lobe and caudate nucleus critical for intuition
I grew up being told that the average person uses 3% of their brain for conscious thought. It was my job to use more of it. (That myth that we use 10% of our brains is just that- we use our brains to see, to hear, etc- and probably most of it. But, that is not the same thing as what portion of our brain we use for cogent thinking.)
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