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Implications
March 6, 2008 by Renaisauce, 1 year 37 weeks ago
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You know, if we convicted people of crimes the same way that implicate entire brain networks in behavioral functions, we would all be in jail. fMRI is great, but I think it really needs to pump up the resolution if we're going to find anything substantive. Of course the limbic system is implicated in a desire for food-- it's involved in emotion and memory, and communicates with the hypothlamus and the prefrontal cortex (which is the second most implicated portion of the brain). But that doesn't say anything about how anything actually works.