DARPA Wants To Recruit Smarter Service Dogs By Scanning The Brains of Canine Job Candidates

Functional MRI could reveal which dogs are best suited to a life of military service. It's hard enough to find good people for a given job. Harder still: finding the right dog. The U.S. military employs and deploys canines in a variety of roles throughout the armed services--bomb detection, search and rescue, post-traumatic stress disorder therapy--and each dog selected for those roles goes through a rigorous training regimen that can cost tens of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of the do...