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The Neuroscience of Personal Space

A study of the brain mechanisms associated with the regulation of personal space has led to deeper understandings of social dysfunction in schizophrenia – and pointed toward possible new treatments.

Ken Kwong and the Introduction of Noninvasive fMRI

In the early months of 1992 the neuroscience community was flush with excitement. Jack Belliveau, a graduate student with the MGH-NMR Center (now the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging), had recently published in Science his…