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Caption: Computer monitors display imaged data in the control room of the fMRI scanner at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. Using a 3T functional magnetic resonance scanner, researchers capture real-time responses to emotional stimuli in various regions of the brain by measuring neural activity associated with changes in blood flow.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: Psychology professor Richard Davidson describes how this geodesic sensor net containing 256 electrodes picks up electrical impulses from numerous parts of the brain when placed on a subject’s head. The net can be used at the same time that a PET or fMRI scan is taken at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior to provide maximum information.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: This geodesic sensor net containing 256 electrodes picks up electrical impulses from numerous parts of the brain when placed on a subject’s head. The net can be used at the same time that a PET or fMRI scan is taken at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior to provide maximum information.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: Radioactive tracers used for PET scans are made in this on-site tandem accelerator that sits inside a concrete vault shielded with 8-foot walls and a three-ton door at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: Psychology professor Richard Davidson stands beside a PET scanner at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior and discusses imaging technology. The PET scanner detects metabolically active areas of the brain by picking up signals from a radioactive tracer injected into the subject before the procedure.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: Psychology professor Richard Davidson.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: April 2001.
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Caption: Psychiatry professor Ned Kalin.
Photo by: Greg Sutter.
Date: 1999.
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Caption: The Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, during a 1998 speech at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wis.
Photo by: Jeff Miller.
Date: May 1998.
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Brain images

Caption: This figure shows functional magnetic resonance images, fMRI, (top row) and positron emission tomography, PET, images (bottom row) from two individuals. Information from the fMRI helped identify the precise location of the area of the brain called the amygdala while data from the PET scan revealed activity in the amygdala.
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Caption: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) lets scientists "see" local blood flow changes in the brain. This figure illustrates activation detected in the brain area called the amygdala in subjects who were shown pictures evoking strong emotions.
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Movies

New mothers respond uniquely to their own babies. As this movie representing data from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scan illustrates, one area of the brain, shown in red, activates when mothers see their own infants; another area, shown in blue, activates when they see someone else's infant. (Movie courtesy Terry Oakes, Lab for Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison)
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Antidepressants can do more than improve mood. This movie, a compilation of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data, shows that specific areas of the brain, shown in red, are activated after depressed volunteers are on medications for several weeks. (Movie courtesy Terry Oakes, Lab for Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison)
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Negativity affects your brain. When people view emotionally negative images, their brains respond in a specific way. The orange "clouds" in the image here show areas that are activated in response to negative images, relative to a baseline of viewing neutral images. (Movie courtesy Terry Oakes, Lab for Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison)
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