News on Human Behavior: Brain Scans Could Help Doctors Better Predict Your Behavior
(CNN REPORT): Forget horoscopes or fortune tellers. There's a new way to tell your future, and it involves a much more reliable medium: human neuroscience. A new study looks at over 70 scientific publications about brain scans such as functional magnetic resonance imaging or electroencephalography, noninvasive tests that measure brain activity. The paper that runs in the latest edition of Neuron concludes that doctors might have more success treating some patients if they examined the way a person's brain functioned first. Brain scans have been used to make basic discoveries about human behavior for decades, but they are not routinely ordered to determine someone's overall health or course of treatment in the way as blood test are used. This new study suggests technology in this area has become so advanced that approaches to treatment would be more effective if brain scans were used more routinely. For instance, when someone is being treated f