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MUST YOU REALLY HAVE YOUR HEAD EXAMINED? – NEUROIMAGING AND ITS PLACE IN MODERN-DAY PSYCHIATRY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2010

Johnathan Sunley
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If recent reports in the media are anything to go by, we now know why some people crave chocolate, why teenagers tend to be moody and – most impressively of all, perhaps – which parties voters will opt for in elections. Findings like these, we are assured, have the backing of science. We owe them to advances in brain-scanning technology that have enabled researchers to pinpoint the brain's ‘pleasure centre’ or ‘thinking area’, and so to achieve mind-reading powers that have hitherto been the stuff of fantasy. There is even some site in the brain that might be called a ‘God spot’.

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Think , Volume 9 , Issue 24 , Spring 2010 , pp. 73 - 84
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

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