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December 24, 2005
Think Away The Pain
Pain can be mysterious, untreatable and debilitating, and its causes can be unknown. But if you can see the pain - or at least, your brain's reaction to it - you might be able to master it.
A study from researchers at Stanford University and MRI technology company suggests that's possible. The researchers asked people in pain to try to control a pain-regulating region of the brain by watching activity in that area from inside a real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI machine. Initial results showed subjects managed to reduce their pain dramatically and in some cases, completely force the pain to subside.
This type of brain control could be similar to what many Eastern cultures have done for thousands of years - as a form of meditation to control physical pain. As they say, it's all in the mind. Damn, I can almost feel my jedi powers surging thru my mind. This is very very interesting stuff.
via Wired
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