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Developmental Neuroimaging and Psychopathology

Research Lab. Schwartz

has bright, inquisitive eyes, graying

brown hair, and a quietly enthusiastic

manner. Despite our unprepossessing

surroundings, he prepares with some

fanfare to unlock the door.

The room houses a multimillion-dollar

fMRI (functional magnetic resonance

imaging) machine, which has

made possible some of the greatest

breakthroughs in modern neuroscience.

An fMRI machine can measure which

parts of the brain are active when

you’re thinking a particular thought or

performing a specific task, allowing scientists

to perform the once unimaginable

task of mapping the functions of

the human brain. A principal inventor

of the fMRI technique, says Dr.

Schwartz, was a brilliant but unassuming

scientist named Kenneth Kwong,

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