Tuesday: A new use for brain scans ... measuring pain
Tomorrow on The Current, Anna Maria Tremonti explores a controversial new use of brain scans. The technology is starting to be used to detect and measure chronic pain.
For the first time ever, brain scans to test for pain was successfully used as evidence in an American court case.
The technology was used to support a man's case seeking damages for an injury. And now it has lawyers, doctors and scientists all talking.
Tomorrow we hear from doctors Sean Mackey and Joy Hirsch and look at why the scientific and legal communities are sharply divided about brain mapping for pain.