bookofjoe: BehindTheMedspeak: Can you learn to control your own pain?

Long story short: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to observe brain activity in real time, the scientists trained a group of healthy research subjects experiencing mild, experimentally–induced pain to alter their brain activity while they watched a visual representation of their fMRI output.

And he says:

I predict that most — if not all — physiological functions will ultimately become subject to our conscious manipulation.

What do you think?

Happy New Year!

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