Christopher deCharms: Looking inside the brain in real time
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Uploaded by TEDtalksDirector on Mar 27, 2008
http://www.ted.com 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.
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how soon will we be seeing this technology?
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How do I sign up as a research subject? Need help in controlling some animal urges;)
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@bubach85 No he does not— that's how you interpreted his talk. How I interpreted it, is that deCharms hints ideas of how we can interpret and glimpse into our brain activity. This is great, specifically because it opens gateway to understand ourselves and our emotions, thoughts, philosophies, physical phenomenons, etc. Whether or not this is effective for Medical Treatment is another story, but as far as progress goes this is just amazing.
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@bubach85 Well... another post said that this is biofeedback, he is right, but errs saying that has little of interest or use, bc it has been proven effective for many things (read journals). Biofeedback rivals pills, with no side-effects, and with a real sense of selfcontrol, once you learn to control it, you can still do it without the machine. "All we have to do is make a decision and act on it"... that is undoubtly naive. I recommend reading good psych books, not the pop ones.
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@thebeholder23 No I think you are. What good is images of our brain in action to normal people? Come on, it's not like we can spend that much time in a giant god damn magnetfield anyway. He starts the talk as if it was now possible to literally program our minds to do anything - shut down areas that light up in pain for example. But no, all we can do is observe what has been possible through normal MRI for a long time. Not very exciting at all. Yawn..
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@bubach85 Naive
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he has 666 videos! BE AFRAID!
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Please let me do this!
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This guy didn't even get four minutes. What the hell, TED?
misjudgeme 3 years ago 12
jesus, why is this, one of the most interesting talks, one of the shortest?!
sacapiloa 3 years ago 10