"Can it read my mind?" - what do the public and experts think of the current (mis)uses of neuroimaging?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a,b   O'Connell, Garret ^a   Shuler, Kirsten ^a,b   DeWilde, Janet ^a,b   Haley, Jane ^a   Escobar, Oliver ^a   Murray, Shaun ^a   Rae, Robert ^c   Jarvie, Donald ^c   Sandercock, Peter ^a,b   Schafer, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b Scottish Imaging Network A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) Collaboration   (United Kingdom)

^c Futures Forum   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONSUMER; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEUROIMAGING; PRIVACY; PUBLIC OPINION; BRAIN; EQUIPMENT; EXPERT WITNESS; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; BRAIN; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PUBLIC OPINION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 80053533272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025829     Document Type: Article

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