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Is getting a personal brain scan affordable? Has anyone done it and had any interesting results? It strikes me that it might be cool to have a 23andme style service for brains. I'd personally be fascinated by it, but I don't know how much useful information an amateur could extract from it.
Depends on how detailed / what kind of brain scan you want. The Emotiv Epoc is commercially available, and can probably give just as much useful information to an amateur as a full brain scan without professional explanation could. If the detail and type are appropriate, then I'd definitely consider this "affordable" for the majority of LW users.
If you want to push deeper, the SDKs and general development stuff are available for >500$, with the "Researcher Edition" priced at 750$. This would probably involve coding your own interface or buying one, though.
I don't know how this would compare in price or precision to the sort of brain scan you'd get in a hospital when looking for tumors or something. This option does have the added bonus that once you own the hardware and the software licenses, you can have brain scans whenever you want.