Monday, July 14, 2008

Mind over white matter???

Further to my last post:

Have any of you read Mind Over White Matter on the BSA site?

The scientists have jumped from mapping water to mapping nerve bundles. These are not the same but the conclusions depend on their being the same. Then an exciting jump is made to stating that nerve bundles are 'disrupted: this is logical bilge and shows that some folk will believe anything the MR sales people tell them. Remember MR reconstruction relies on computers and what has been your experience of computer sales staff?

There is no way, at present, of mapping nerve bundles.

And another piece of nonsense is to equate mind and brain. Not the same. But a nice selling headline for the article - MR salesmen do the same thing.

Don't believe everything you read in the literature; scientific or sales.

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