Stanford researcher scans his own brain for a year and a half

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For 18 months, Stanford psychologist Russell Poldrack scanned his brain activity twice a week to understand how functional areas of his brain communicate. Among his findings was that his brain behaves dramatically different when it craves coffee.
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What's more fascinating is that it's raining in CA.

dvuono
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Intriguing information. Videographer: filming this while he was walking was particularly distracting from the information being communicated.

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Sounds like this is telling us that our brains are better off if we never drink coffee. It would be interesting to see if coffee has any long term effects on the brain by comparing the brains of people who have never drank coffee in their lives (like me), and the brains of people who drink coffee regularly.

EugeneKhutoryansky
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Just to clarify you said you got into a MRI scanner. MRI is a anatomical scan. FMRI are functional scans, you are talking about function so I assuming you got a FMRI and not a MRI correct?

hxkk
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How does he know that it is caffein changing his brain functions? It could be the year long repetition of a habit.

Paulus_Brent
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In order to understand the brain, you just scratch its surface?!

valg
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ok heres the thing, you have a machine reading your brain, while you are physically doing nothing but having your eyes closed, sitting in a chair. wouldnt it be more beneficial, to actually do something for 10 minutes, like for example solve a sudoku puzzle, or do a rubiks cube. then we could actually see what effects were created, or where your brain was going.

MemeKing
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should try doing brain scans with other drugs that work on the brain *coughthccough*

jcsf
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So where are the actual comparisons? Maybe show something informative next time instead of just walking around..

SKinnyPete
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that was really lame dude, a year and a half, and you literally shared nothing with us about what you learned, thanks. well at least elon musk believes in open patents, free technology, and now openai, what they research can all be free knowledge, apparently not the case at stanford.

MemeKing