NY Times (Business):

Mind Over Matter with a Machine's Help

Technology Review (MIT):

Seeing Your Pain: Learning to consciously alter brain activity through MRI feedback could help control pain and other disorders

Nature: Thought Control Brings Pain Into Line

Science: Thinking the Pain Away

NY Times (Science Times):

Relief from Chronic Pain may be a Thought Away

Technology Review (MIT):

Looking at Your Brain on Drugs: If addicts watch their brain's changing blood flow during a craving, they may be able to train themselves to kick the habit 

BBC: Brain scans help think away pain

BBC Radio Piece:

Brain scans help think away pain

NPR Radio Piece:

Tracking and Controlling Pain by Sight

Reuters Health:

Consciously controlling brain activation may reduce pain perception

Fox News: Brain Can Be Trained to Reduce Pain

Best Life:

The Psychology of Back Pain

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Control over brain activation and pain learned by using real-time functional MRI.  Download

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

deCharms, R. C., Maeda, F., Glover, G. H., Ludlow, D., Pauly, J. M., Soneji, D., Gabrieli, J. D., and Mackey, S. C.

Learned regulation of spatially localized brain

activation using real-time fMRI. Link

NeuroImage (2004) 21, 436-443

deCharms, R. C., Christoff, K., Glover, G. H., Pauly, J. M.,

Whitfield, S., and Gabrieli, J. D.

Functional brain imaging using a blood oxygenation

sensitive steady state. Link

Magnetic  Resonance in Medicine (2003) 50, 675-683

Miller, K. L., Hargreaves, B. A., Lee, J., Ress, D., deCharms,

R. C., and Pauly, J. M.

Neural representation and the cortical code. Link

Annual Review Neuroscience (2000) 23, 613-647

deCharms, R. C., and Zador, A.

Information coding in the cortex by independent or coordinated populations. Download

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

(1998) 95, 15166-15168

deCharms, R. C.

Optimizing sound features for cortical neurons.  Link

Science (1998) 280, 1439-1443

deCharms, R. C., Blake, D. T., and Merzenich, M. M.

Primary cortical representation of sounds by the coordination of action-potential timing. Link

Nature (1996) 381, 610-613

deCharms, R. C., and Merzenich, M. M.