A look inside the brain in real time

Summary

Neuroscientist and inventor Christopher deCharms demos an amazing new way to use fMRI to show brain activity while it is happening — emotion, body movement, pain. (In other words, you can literally see how you feel.)

The applications for real-time fMRIs start with chronic pain control and range into the realm of science fiction, but this technology is very real.

Filmed February 2008 at TED 2008
Uploaded to YouTube on March 27, 2008 by TED

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