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New Portable MRI Revolutionizing Brain Research Demands Ethical and Legal Innovation

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But because MRI scanners are expensive and require extensive infrastructure, they have mostly been housed in hospitals and large research institutions. Traditional MRI brain scanning has transformed neuroscience research. pMRI can also help to enlarge and diversify the makeup of the MRI research community.

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How to Assess the Impact of Medical Ethics Education

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However, although a large percentage of hospitalized patients lack capacity , physicians often do not feel confident in their ability to assess capacity, fail to recognize that most patients who do not have capacity lack it, and often disagree on which patients have capacity.