It's Monday, November 13th, 2017, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds. I'm Indyvis Gantus.

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As many of you know, I have a background in neuroscience,

and I'm always interested in finding out what is at the cutting edge of the field.

This summer, I went to the meeting of the organization for human

brain mapping and found out about some really cool work being done scanning brains, not just of

kids, but of fetuses. And I wanted to talk to the person who does that. Mariah Thomason is a pediatric

neuroscientist at Wayne State University in Detroit, and she is a pioneer

at brain imaging fetuses. Why might you ask, should we image the brains of fetuses as they're still

developing and they have yet to be born? Well, the answer is that we might be able to find

out about not only how their development is going, but whether or not they

are at risk at developing problems after birth. And maybe we can even go in and solve some of those

solutions ultimately before they're born. So let's take a short break and we'll be back with

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