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What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Self-Control
New pictures show what happens in the brain when you pass up the pie, but later eat the pudding.
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Breaking Out Of A Web Of Fear
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MRIs and the Law
Is it possible to use brain imaging techniques in criminal investigations? Should it be allowed?
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Looking Inside the Human Brain
What's really going on inside your head? We'll talk with scientists using functional magnetic resonance imaging to study the workings of the human brain.
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The Middle-Aged Brain
The author of a new book on the middle-aged brain talks about why owners of an aging brain shouldn't necessarily fear their next birthday.
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