I worked in this field and it’s absolutely remarkable how well professor Brookes is able to explain such complex things in the simplest way possible.

Brady is really an asset. I have been watching these Sixty Symbols videos for a long time. He always asks very pointed and relevant questions. His interactions with the various scientists are very informative and very respectful. He is the perfect person to do this work. A ringing endorsement is my conclusion. Go Brady!

Prof. Brookes did a great job with his explanations and making the science seem accessible.

Brady's enthusiasm for science is so engaging, endearing, and authentic.

I worked for Sir Godfrey Hounsfield on the development of the original CT scanner. He would have been amazed, but not surprised, to see just how far medical imaging has advanced.

2:18 Brady: This feels like a James Bond torture device Matt the Scientist: *cackles in response*

That shot at 9:41 is so gorgeous. The intense stare, the oversized brain helmet, you look like a super villain that's trying to melt Batman with his mind.

This is so cool! It's interesting to see the behind-the-scenes of what goes into developing this kind of equipment. The device shown here seems rather compact, so it is easy to imagine them being used in hospitals. It's not like going into MRI or CT machine.

The Brady & James formula really shines in this video. Understated visuals with a casual feel, a knowledgeable, eloquent guest expert, and Brady's knack for asking just the right questions bring the viewer along on a low-key field trip to an amazing place.

What an amazing technology to be able to do this without needing a massive machine surrounding your head or cooling to near absolute zero temps! I am trying to imagine this with a thousand sensors instead of just a few dozens.. a couple of iterations of this design could see some wild improvements. -Matt

absolutely fascinating, Brady should consider doing even deeper dives, like a 1, 2 hr with selected Academics such as Professor Matt Brookes, could cover the history, development etc in even deeper detail.

I love how the Matlab plot's title says "Updated!", like there is a long debug history behind it, haha

14:52 Almost as if Brady's brain was pretending to write with his right hand but translating that into left hand movement.

Hope matt is doing great, he was the best tutor ever

Right when I needed a Sixty Simbols video, thank you Brady!

Truly some fantastic work being done. Thank you for sharing!

This is such a great channel. Sixy Symbols is able to capture these moments so well!

What an amazing piece of kit. I wish you all the very best. It really is fabulous.

Absolutely loved this video! Prof. Brookes did an excellent job of walking us through the relevant concepts and their importance.

That is some truly awesome work. Thanks for sharing.

What an excellent and detailed explanation, great video!

you just have to adore all the people appearing/speaking on this channel. great video again.

Brilliant, thanks for your efforts.

Love this style of video, with you moderating infront of the Camera

I loved the almost poetic analogy at the beginning with the cities/people&cars > MRI/MRG, nice one Brady...

Lovely to see some applied physics on here! Superb work Brady, and thank you Professor Brookes!

Absolutely amazing video!

mad respect for everyone involved in this project and great job for the video crew

Thanks for sharing this information. Very interesting, and your explanations are great for us non-scientists.

Amazing people doing amazing work!

Fantastic video! Thank you Matt and Brady for such a clear explanation and demonstration. 😁👍👍👍👍👍

Thanks Matt and Brady. Fascinating

Great questions from Brady and great answers from Professor Brookes! Very engaging and easy to understand.

This is so exciting! I'm really happy we're developing new ways for collecting functional data and not just spatial imaging. :)

Delightful video, I loved it thanks Brady!

Can't help being reminded of the 80's movie, Brainstorm. The SF "suspension of disbelief" element was the recording and replay of detailed thoughts and experiences, but there was also some fasicnating technology foreshadowing. As I recall, the helmet in the story started out as a bulky affair restricted to the lab, which used LN2 cooled SQUIDs sensors, later to be replaced by a light streamligned version made possible by "room temperature" superconductors....

Excellent! Well done and do keep us informed. Kind Regards

This is an awesome video. I like seeing Brady on screen while still being an excellent interviewer.

Amazing video for a great concept.

2:58 when you're listening to their story but can't believe they haven't mentioned your new hat yet

Gotta love Brady asking the questions I never knew I wanted answered. Brilliant part on the colour!

Amazing technology and fantastic explanations!

As a left handed person, I'd love to see how that affects the scan.

Such a cool piece of technology. kudos to everyone who were working on it

This here is freaking cool! The brain is so interesting, and its great to add another piece of tech that will help in understanding how it works!

What amazing work.

This makes me so excited to see that we're already making such amazing machines to replace the costly and hard to maintain superconducting magnets.

Fascinating seeing this method vs the contact style dense array w/ salt water (potassium chrome w/ where In worked) awesome!

Wonderful work.

Fascinating. It's like a super-EEG. I can see it's early days but the promise is enormous. I can see it leading to things like 'pacemakers' for the brain to turn off things like epileptic foci before they turn into fits (something I suffered from in my teens and early 20s) or to turn off the voices which someone I know with schizophrenia hears and lead to their screaming at them to stop.

Old technology? You mean like a saw? I love neuroscience. And that's an amazing insight. I ve heard of this. Now you put a video out. So awesome

Very exciting, thank you for this video!

Very interesting, I didn't know about this new method! One question though: How does it compare to alternative "portable" functional brain scanning technics such as NIRS?

Amazing technology!

Nifty ! I'd think the spatial resolution of such a device is mostly a matter of the size of & the space in between those sensors but what about its overall temporal resolution ? How long does it take to align the atoms or whatever else happens in between each individual unaveraged measurement ?

Great video! Thanks!

Awesome video Brady

I have been wanting and wishing that this kind of research be developed for a while now. I'm really happy to see this. I hope it continues to get advanced and becomes available for people of low economic standings so we can really help mental health conditions, improve treatment for mental health, like depression, anxiety, pain, discomfort. Concussion effects on the brain, degenerative brain health conditions learning and finding medicine that helps the conditions. The epilepsy zoning in part was a good idea, working in tandem with neurologists or surgeons. This really could improve parts of the medical field oh, Also, I hope researchers start studying the top violent criminal Serial killers prisoners. I just think that if we've caught them we should do everything possible to research them and see if there is anything we can learn, improve, identify, do, to work on better ways to address and improve what to do with this issue of these kinds of violent criminals effecting society. Who knows maybe a type of technology like this or similar will find ways to learn a lot about this problem because up until now we've just locked them up and hoped it stopped but it doesn't, so we will at least try to gain research studies from these types of people who effect society. We might as well try to learn something from them if we can because it could be beneficial.

I have an experiment with left hand writing that almost anyone can perform. Try writing the same word with both hands at the same time but the left hand is mirroring the right, as in writing backwards. I found my ability to write with my left improved significantly. Albeit backwards. There was still difficulty and I had to pace my self but the action of writing was far more comfortable and the results more legible and tidy. Would have loved to see the results of this task in this machine.

Fascinating! 👍😎

Fascinating. From stroke studies we know that only half of left handers use the opposite side of their brain for language. This kind of imaging opens the door for all kinds of studies showing functional details in left handers, people who have recovered from brain injury, etc.

2:46 That look from Brady is gold

Its kinda like your right hand instructions go though a translation layer to do the left handed writing. That's pretty neat.

Really cool! I'm reading the book The Emotional Life of Your Brain and am so excited to watch this field develop!

cool tech. cant wait for stuff like this to be available for even more people.

"High there everyone"....just makes me smile everytime dude. Thanks for all your hard work i truly love these videos. Look for them everyday

love this!

These are the kind of things that give hope in the human being. I love to see people committed with science and technology, that loves what they are doing.

Very cool technology. You can see all sorts of applications...sport, depression, add...all sorts of amazing things. Thats totally amazing. I'd love to get involved.

Very exciting topic!

i can't express enough how much i love science

I'd love to see footage of the full test, I quite enjoy things like this

Fascinating. Terrifying, but fascinating. Also, as a left-hander, hearing them say, “Writing with your left hand is incredibly difficult” made me lol

This is incredible. I want one of these labs in every country.

this actually makes brain interface much more comfortable. just add a meche for isolation from outside fields, and you can game with your brain with no strange junk.

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That was a fascinating videos…excellent future in this….

Wow, very interesting! Thank you.

Looks like a cross between traditional MEG and EEG... really cool!

This was awesome

Wow ... thanks for the video ... I was wondering if this has the possibility of being used to understand Migraine headaches?

This was great.

Really interesting! I can definitely see that Computational Nueroscience and similar fields will be super in demand in next years-decades.

great stuff

So its here they made the Peacemaker helmets, fascinating. (on the top shelf at 13:22 lol)

why does it look like grumpy-brady on the thumbnail? :D Love IT! i hope brady sends grey a fractal of this brain scan! :D

Heart warming and fascinating to see links being forged between fundamental physics and real world applications that are tackling horrific things like childhood brain cancer. Really makes me appreciate that the science (and mathematics) isn't just about admiring the awe and majesty of the universe.

Interesting that the left motor cortex dominates the left handed writing task. I wonder if the left motor cortex is relaying information to the right motor cortex to implement to the left hand. It doesn't sound likely to me, but it's an interesting idea.

Science. Got to love it.

Finally, Brady doing a brain reveal

Gosh, seeing the inside of your brain almost feels like it should be a patreon perk.

very interesting !!!

Phenomenal

Excellent video, informative and enjoyable as usual! One thing I was curious about though - Matt explained that the magnetic shielding was to keep out external flux from various things, and mentioned cameras... but there was a camera on Brady the whole time he was doing the test. How was that set up, and why doesn't it interfere with the equipment?

On a not serious note, boiiiis get ready to be uploaded to the cloud On a serious note: I can't wait to see how this will get integrated in daily Hospital operations like monitoring comatose or non responsive patients I'll definitely be keeping tabs on this project seems very promising and its definitely worth sharing with your friends in the medical field just to let them know we got cool new toys on the way thanks to these brilliant scientists

both these guys were great on camera

thank you

The left part of the brain that was lit up is also near the regions that control language production and comprehension. I wonder if that is why it is still lit up when Brady wrote with his left hand (i.e., the language areas are still active). I also wonder what the spatial resolution is.

Yes!

Really interesting, wouldn't have guessed using the non-dominant hand would predominantly use the dominant side of the motor cortex so much. I'm guessing the dominant side is trained to write whereas the other side isn't it still does the planning and has to send the necessary data to the other side? As a little experiment I decided to imagine writing some words with my left and right hand and my dominant hand was still messier and slower. What happens with ambidextrous people? Are both sides able to work unassisted? Is there more motor cortex bandwidth in corpus callosum?