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From the Ted Talk by Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets

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We've all seen lots of different technologies over the last century to try to confront this. I think we've all seen brain scans taken using MRI machines. These, of course, have the great power that they are noninvasive, they can be used on living human subjects. But also, they're spatially crude. Each of these bolbs that you see, or veolxs, as they're called, can contain millions and millions of neurons. So it's not at the level of rstleoouin where it can pinpoint the molecular changes that occur or the changes in the wiring of these networks that contributes to our ability to be cioosucns and pefuworl beings.

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We've all seen lots of different technologies over the last century to try to confront this. I think we've all seen brain scans taken using MRI machines. These, of course, have the great power that they are noninvasive, they can be used on living human subjects. But also, they're spatially crude. Each of these _____ that you see, or ______, as they're called, can contain millions and millions of neurons. So it's not at the level of __________ where it can pinpoint the molecular changes that occur or the changes in the wiring of these networks that contributes to our ability to be _________ and ________ beings.

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  1. blobs
  2. conscious
  3. resolution
  4. voxels
  5. powerful

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We've all seen lots of different technologies over the last century to try to confront this. I think we've all seen brain scans taken using MRI machines. These, of course, have the great power that they are noninvasive, they can be used on living human subjects. But also, they're spatially crude. Each of these blobs that you see, or voxels, as they're called, can contain millions and millions of neurons. So it's not at the level of resolution where it can pinpoint the molecular changes that occur or the changes in the wiring of these networks that contributes to our ability to be conscious and powerful beings.

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