Science Jokes
New tools to answer timeless questions (MIT)
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Alan Jasanoff
Photo: Allegra
Boverman
After finishing his PhD in molecular
biophysics, Alan Jasanoff decided to veer away from that field and try looking
into some of the biggest questions in neuroscience: How do we perceive things?
What happens in our brains when we make decisions?
After a few
months, however, he realized that he didn’t have the tools he wanted to use —
so he decided to start making his own.
Jasanoff, who recently
earned tenure in MIT’s Department of Biological Engineering, now specializes
in developing novel brain-imaging agents that can reveal information more
detailed than other human brain-imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET, and
more comprehensive than traditional neuroscience measurements such as
microscopy and electrode recordings. With the new tools, he is also beginning
to explore some of the fundamental questions that first drew him into
neuroscience.
Neuroscientists commonly use fMRI, which measures
blood flow in the brain, as a proxy for neural activity. In the past several
years, Jasanoff has developed sensors that can be used with fMRI to image
brain activity more directly, by measuring levels of neurotransmitters …
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