Judy Illes and Eric Racine, bioethicists at Stanford, write that fMRI, by laying bare the brain's secrets, may "fundamentally alter the dynamics between personal identity, responsibility, and free will".
Allen Ginsberg's odyssey of subways, Benzedrine, spilt brains, bare buttocks, and easy lays proved grist to the mill of its defenders, who argued that this nightmare world reflected this author's rage and loneliness, and was figurative of America itself on the verge of breakdown.
Five decades after the first cinematic incarnation of 007, novelist Ian Fleming's agent provocateur, the spy-craft in the new film is sharper, the intrigue deeper, the beauties brighter (more brain, less bare).
Scrolling through the endless pages on my phone in the dark, it seemed pretty obvious to me I was having a heart attack, but thankfully just before I dialled 999 I stumbled on a website for "people who enjoy partaking in drug-taking" and saw my symptoms laid bare: I was experiencing brain zaps.
The tip of my right index finger touched the surface of the brain for a bare fraction of a second.
But there is something about the times, something about the era I find myself in now, I can't put my finger on it, that I find myself newly compelled to tackle certain canned, prepackaged items with my bare hands and my own brain.
It was clearly a response to places, she says; if all a room's furnishings were shown without the floors and walls, the PPA did not respond more than the rest of the brain, but a bare room did activate the area.
Even 6-month-old mice, at the stage when the animals die as a consequence of the tau-pathology in the brain stem, were bare of FSB- or thioflavin S-labelled cells in the accessible cortical regions.
Paul Hawkins, inventor of the Hawk-Eye ball-tracking system used at Wimbledon and in football's Premier League, and David Braben, co-writer of the Elite series of video games and the brains behind the bare bones PC Raspberry Pi both become OBEs.
The profound impact of LSD on the brain has been laid bare by the first modern scans of people high on the drug.
