BUFF UP YOUR BRAIN

Studies like Glaser's and Dr Tracey's have "given credibility to mind-body approches,which had been rejected and ignored by the scientific and medical communities,"says Esther Sternberg Neural immune Program at the [US] national Institue of Mental Health.
Now scientists and doctors have begun taking the next step,harnessing the immense powers of the human brains to help people heal themselves.
For example,using special MRI scanners and software that allowed patient to see their own brain activity,scientists at Stanford University ansd Omneruron,a biotech company,trained participaints to reduce chronic pain by just visualizing it and learning to control it.
Some were able to decrease it by more than 40 percent,says pain expert Sean Mackey,MD,one of the study leaders.