Viewing the brain in whole new light: describes a laser-based brain imaging technique which compares favorably with MRI scanning, the ‘gold standard of noninvasive imaging”, is cheaper, easier to use, more portable, and reportedly “non-damaging.” As you know, I’m a big fan of functional MRI’s ability to elucidate structure/function correlations in the brain in realtime, but certain mental activities just cannot easily be performed inside its stationary massive enclosure.