In 1895, the introduction of X-ray transformed our understandings of the nature of seeing and knowing. Nearly a century later functional MRI did it all over again. We spoke with Bruce Rosen, the Director of the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, about how.
We know from research, and from everyday life, that an itch can be contagious. What we don’t fully understand, from a neuroscience perspective, is why.