Brain fingerprinting

[Sandy Lomax]

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v18/n11/full/nn.4135.html

This study shows that the researchers used data from the Human Connectome Project to find a way of identifying individuals by their brain patterns. They could identify individuals "regardless of how the brain is engaged during imaging".

The Human Connectome Project is led by the universities of Washington, Minnesota, and Oxford:

http://www.humanconnectome.org/