dr. christopher decharms are investigating the use of real-time fmri to help patients suffering from debilitating chronic pain. decharms: we have been studying chronic pain patients, and we've asked the question whether a patient can learn to control the areas of their brain that produce pain, and the areas of their brain that turn off pain, and thereby whether they can learn to control their pain experience itself. so the way that we do that is that we present the patients with images, with ongoing video, live video from inside their own brain, as it were. and we ask whether they can learn to control the processes in their own brain that make the pain go up and make the pain go down. and, if they can, we hope that they're going to be able to control their pain itself. coyote: dr. decharms and his team are developing a new strategy called neuroimaging therapy that attempts to accomplish this task. decharms: neuroimaging therapy is the approach of measuring the brains activation in real time, live action, second by second, and presenting that information to a person, or a patient, so that they can