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How neurofeedback helps patients tamp down their fears
Tiny parts of the brain, School of Medicine researchers are discovering, can have a huge impact on our lives. Michelle Hampson, Ph.D., and Judson A. Brewer, M.D., Ph.D., are leading teams that use real-time fMRI and what’s known as neurofeedback to try to teach people how to control brain activity and combat such problems as anxiety, addiction, Tourette syndrome, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as well as more mundane self-imposed roadblocks to success.