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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by rob[/i] [br]Study Says Brain Can Control Pain An American study suggests people can learn to suppress pain when shown the activity of a pain-control region of their brain, according to New Scientist. This new biofeedback technique might also turn out to be useful for treating other conditions, the report says. Biofeedback techniques based on electroencephalogram recordings of brainwave patterns, in which electrodes are placed on the scalp, are used with some success to treat epilepsy and attention problems. Fumiko Maeda, Christopher deCharms and their colleagues at Stanford University in California have tried showing people real-time feedback from a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner. Eight volunteers saw the activity of a pain-control region called the rostral anterior cingulate cortex represented on a screen either as a flame that varied in size, or as a simple scrolling bar graph. It took just three 13-minute sessions in the scanner for the volunteers to learn to vary the brain activity level and thus to develop some control over their pain sensations, the researchers reported at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting in San Francisco last week. Copyright 2004 by United Press International. All rights reserved. - Updated: May 16, 2004 [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.