Relief From Chronic Pain?

Persons suffering from intractable chronic pain have found relief in monitoring their own brain waves on a functional MRI scanner. After some training, the volunteers were able to make changes in the way their brains processed the pain signals and reported feeling less pain. The Stanford University study physicians caution that much is yet to be done but a company called Omneuron is trying to develop the equipment for commercial use.

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