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Twenty years ago Peter Rosenfeld found that he could change the pain threshold in mice using biofeedback. He trained them to alter their brainwave patterns through a process called conditioned learning, where an altered brainwave state was rewarded by direct stimulation of the reward centres in their brains. Since this meant placing an electrode into the brain, however, his team never tried the technique on people.
Dr. Stoll has pointed out multiple times that it is well known that untrained volunteers can learn to control many involuntary body processes through biofeedback training, most in about an hour.
Now, using a fMRI, ordinary volunteers trained themselves to reduce pain in under 40 minutes. They could not explain how they did it, but every volunteer was successful. fMRI shows how much activity there is in specific areas of the brain.
In Reply to: Reducing Pain posted by news [22.1106] on May 03, 2004 at 12:13:00:
I began to do this with headache pain a number of years ago; it's almost 100% effective simply by an act of will.
In Reply to: Reducing Pain posted by news [22.1106] on May 03, 2004 at 12:13:00:
Thanks, News (and PeterB).
Walt
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