Audio feature: Ray Dolan on brain scanning

4 November 2009

Professor Ray Dolan, Director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, provides a brief introduction to the history the Centre and the technologies that have led to the visualisation of the brain in action.

Using modern brain scanning techniques, Professor Dolan and his team are teasing apart the neural mechanisms at the heart of emotions, decision making and mental illness.

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Patient having a brain scan.