Summary Of Secrets Of The Brain

The article I read was “Secrets of the Brain,” by Carl Zimmer. He is a reporter from the National Geographic magazine. He interviewed Dr. Van J. Wedeen who offered to take a scan of his brain. Wedeen is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital. Wedeen wanted to learn more about the brains patterns and record brains in action. Over the last decade the fMRI machine has helped reveal networks involved in our thought processes.
Wedeen wanted to understand the structure of the brain with people who have disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and Alzheimer’s disease. Mapping the brain in great detail may help diagnose disorders by the makeup of their brain.