Ever since I was diagnosed I’ve volunteered to take part in several of the MND research projects being run from the neuroscience department at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Up to now this has mainly involved giving samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid and taking various memory tests.
Today was different. I went to the Oxford Centre for Brain Activity and spent over an hour in an MRI machine. They took many scans of my head at different settings to image different components of my brain. One of the experiments involved reacting to various symbols flashed on a computer screen for fractions of a second and pressing buttons accordingly; this was partly a test of reaction speed, but other things as well I believe. The parallel MRI scans showed which bits of my brain were active during the experiment.
The attached photo was taken just before I was slid into the machine.
Doug about to start.jpg
All great fun, if noisy!
Doug
Today was different. I went to the Oxford Centre for Brain Activity and spent over an hour in an MRI machine. They took many scans of my head at different settings to image different components of my brain. One of the experiments involved reacting to various symbols flashed on a computer screen for fractions of a second and pressing buttons accordingly; this was partly a test of reaction speed, but other things as well I believe. The parallel MRI scans showed which bits of my brain were active during the experiment.
The attached photo was taken just before I was slid into the machine.
Doug about to start.jpg
All great fun, if noisy!
Doug
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