• Question: douse it never creep you out when you like operate on brains and like scan the brain and look inside it

    Asked by anon-357384 to Stuart on 14 Mar 2023.
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      Stuart Clare answered on 14 Mar 2023:


      Hi Ruby,

      Thankfully I don’t operate on people’s brains, because that might freak me out.

      However when you first see the brain scan from a living person it is really quite amazing. I look at scan so often now, I have lost that sense of ‘wonder’, but I do remember the first time and it was amazing.

      Sometimes when I show brain scans in schools, the students react with an ‘urgh’, but because they are scans they don’t hurt the person, I don’t feel that when I look at them.

      Stuart

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