MIT “Brain Scan" Tours

Tours: Thursday, Nov. 19 at 3:00 PM, and 4:00 PM
Tours: Friday, Nov. 20 at 10:00 AM, and 11:00 AM
Tours are for one hour
Fee: $120 per person
Tours are limited in size. If you are interested, please sign up early.

Take this special opportunity, for Learning & the Brain participants only, to tour the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where you will see an fMRI brain scan in action. Find out about the Center and what is being learned from brain scans. One volunteer from each tour group will be selected for the live scan of his/her own working brain, to be viewed by the group.

Register:
To register, please call 781-449-4010 ext. 101 or 917-405-0412. The full fee must be paid in advance by check or credit card. We regret that purchase orders cannot be accepted for this tour. You will be asked to sign a health consent form for the Athinoula A. Martinos Center.

Volunteer for the Brain Scan: If you would like to volunteer for the brain scan, please indicate your interest when you call to register. You will be sent a questionnaire by the Athinoula A. Martinos Center, which will include personal questions about your health. The Athinoula A. Martinos Center will be responsible for selecting the volunteer for the actual brain scan from each tour group. If you are selected, you will be asked to sign consent forms.

Location: The Center is located walking distance from the Boston Marriott Cambridge Hotel and the MIT Faculty Club, where the conference will take place. Walking directions will be provided to you in advance of the tour.

For further information or to register, please call 781-449-4010 ext. 101.