{"id":49,"date":"2003-01-05T17:01:01","date_gmt":"2003-01-05T17:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=49"},"modified":"2003-01-05T17:01:01","modified_gmt":"2003-01-05T17:01:01","slug":"my-mri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/01\/05\/my-mri\/","title":{"rendered":"My MRI&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1154\" title=\"2003.01.05\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2003\/01\/2003.01.05.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Very uneventful weekend though I did spend the afternoon participating in an fMRI study! This was the first time I&#8217;ve been scanned, and though I wasn&#8217;t too claustrophic or bothered by the loud noises of the magnet, I did find it intensely monotonous. I found it amusing that the person doing the study told me that my ONLY task was to stay awake. It&#8217;s amusing &#8217;cause knowing me and the fact that I only had 4 hrs of sleep, this was probably the toughest task they could&#8217;ve given me. I essentially had to lie still for these 8-9 minute scans while they played various combinations of the phonemes &#8216;ba&#8217; and &#8216;da&#8217; into my ears. I walked away with $50 and more importantly, the first MRI of my head!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very uneventful weekend though I did spend the afternoon participating in an fMRI study! This was the first time I&#8217;ve been scanned, and though I wasn&#8217;t too claustrophic or bothered by the loud noises of the magnet, I did find &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2003\/01\/05\/my-mri\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}