A new study visualizes the effects of drug use on your brain using SPECT scans. Interesting — though the footnote “colors do not have significant meaning” dilutes the impact quite a bit.
Still, it’s an improvement over what we were taught in the 80s:
As someone who does brain imaging for a living, stuff like this really pisses me off. It’s completely and utterly unclear what you are looking at, and if any of it is statistically significant. GGrrr…
2 Responses to This is Your Brain on Drugs
Johann
September 15th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
The colours do aid in relating the different views (top, bottom, side) to each other, rather than if they were all just gray speckled blobs.
Allison
September 18th, 2010 at 9:23 am
As someone who does brain imaging for a living, stuff like this really pisses me off. It’s completely and utterly unclear what you are looking at, and if any of it is statistically significant. GGrrr…