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The neurology of chronic pain
My Pain, My Brain by Melanie Thernstrom gives us a look at a study being done at Stanford University. Subjects view an area of the brain that is involved in the perception of pain via a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine, and undergo training similar to biofeedback in which they practice directly controlling that […]
May 21, 2006
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