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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, [...]

Insomnia is a disorder where a person is unable to sleep for extended periods of time. Lack of sleep can be dangerous because the person who suffers from insomnia is exhausted all of the time which can lead to bad judgment calls and failure to being productive. Sleep allows the body to recover and refresh [...]