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Using Brain Scan to Control Pain
ByKerrie Smyres December 15, 2005July 22, 2013

In July, NPR did a story on a type of MRI of the brain that shows nerve activation when a person is in pain. The link to the study abstract didn’t work, so I removed it in yesterday’s housekeeping. Coincidentally, the study made news again…

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Brain Scans Show Nerve Activation with Pain
ByKerrie Smyres July 6, 2005July 23, 2013

Pain researchers at Stanford experimenting with a type of MRI that shows where pain occurs in the brain and how to control it. The scans indicate where pain is activated, how it is being processed and how it comes about. Researchers hope that eventually such…

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