Would that thinking made it so, people sometimes wistfully say. But Christopher deCharms, the chief executive of Omneuron, a start-up in Menlo Park, Calif., believes the adage.The company he founded has created technologies that teach sufferers to think away their pain, and plans to similarly treat addiction, depression and other intractable neurological and psychological conditions.

This company is using fMRI scanners to set up a positive feed back loop so that people can learn to use their brains better. I think it would be really good to use an fMRI scanner to look at a brain undergoing NLP and EFT interventions.

Read more at the NY Times.

Scientists have induced the age-old phenomenon of out-of-body experiences in healthy volunteers for the first time.The technique, which uses a virtual-reality-style set up of cameras linked to a head-mounted video display, will help researchers understand how the brain assimilates sensory information to determine the position of its body.

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