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CHRISTOPHER DE CHARMS’S PRESENTATION

See inside your brain in real time: Christopher deCharms on TED.com | TED Blog

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• http://blog.ted.com/2008/03/christopher_dec.php

Look at the presentation by Christopher deCharms and answer the questions

1. What will the technology he’s presenting enable you to do?

2. What techniques does he mention that allowed you to see the insides of brains?

3. What’s new? What’s the improvement of this technology over previous ones?

4. What three ways does he mention that have tried to impact the brain?

5. What is the fourth alternative he presents?

6. What is chronic pain an example of?

7. How does this new technology work on pain?

8. What have clinical trials of it shown?

9. How does this differ from the Matrix?

10.What’s this new technology called?