Scanning in another world

[image error]Neuroscientists sometimes forget just how different the experience of an MRI scan is from everyday life. I've just found this intriguing study that asked patients who had scans for the first time how they felt about the experience - the most common theme was the 'sense of being in another world'.

There is a delightful bit in the study where one man compares it to being in a space capsule.

The participants' overall experience of going through the MRI scan was a sense of being in another world...