Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Studying brain activity.







An interesting article on the 'pantopican blog' dealt with examining our brains' activities when we perform certain actions or feel certain emotions. Neuroscientist Christopher deCharms and his company Omneuron use advanced fMRI technologies to look at the happenings inside our brain in real time, in 3D! This huge advancement in technology opens up a many possibilities for discovery and treatment research. With deCharms' fMRI scans a patient can look inside their head on a LIVE screen. This technology makes it possible for a patient suffering pain (eg. a burn) to look at what area in the brain is making them feel the pain, then they can concentrate on trying to reduce the brain activity in that specific area ,which theoretically would reduce the pain. Here is a link to a speech which deCharms gives explaining his company's research:






I found this article very interesting and pallable. I agree with deCharms ideas and think that his research will become very important to controlling the activities of the brain,besides haven't monks being doing it for centuries allready??






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