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Searching the Internet can be a totally exhausting experience, as you bounce from one site to another to another, sometimes until you cant remember what you were looking for in the first place. But according to scientists at U.C.L.A., all that virtua

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Its called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or FMRI. And some neuroscientists call it the greatest scientific advance of the last 25 years. Because FMRI lets researchers look at the human brain in action. By measuring blood flow, it produces co

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By Chris Mitchell Washington, DC 06 April 2006 watch Medical Imaging report Medical experts have defended medical imaging as a way to improve health care, during a briefing at the U.S. Capitol buildin

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Do you remember who won the world series in nineteen sixty- eight, but forget where you left your keys? Are you great at remembering all the details of a story, but lousy when it comes to remembering peoples names? What our brains choose to remember,