ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher deCharms - Brain researcher
Christopher deCharms is working on a way to use fMRI scans to show brain activity -- in real time.

Why you should listen

Neuroscientist Christopher deCharms is helping to develop a new kind of MRI that allows doctor and patient to look inside the brain in real time -- to see visual representations of brain processes as they happen. With his company Omneuron, deCharms has developed technology they call rtfMRI, for "real-time functional MRI" -- which is exactly what it sounds like. You move your arm, your brain lights up. You feel pain, your brain lights up.

How could we use the ability to see our brains in action? For a start, to help treat chronic pain with a kind of biofeedback; being able to visualize pain can help patients control it. And longer-term uses boggle the mind. Ours is the first generation, he believes, to be able to train and build our minds as systematically as a weightlifter builds a muscle. What will we do with this?

deCharms is also the author of the book Two Views of Mind, studying Buddhist theories of perception from a neuroscientist's perspective.

More profile about the speaker
Christopher deCharms | Speaker | TED.com
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Christopher deCharms: A look inside the brain in real time

Christopher deCharms skenira mozak u stvarnom vremenu

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Neuroznanstvenik i izumitelj Christopher deCharms pokazuje novi način uporabe fMRI da pokaže aktivnost mozga - misli, emocije, bol - dok se to događa. Drugim riječima, možete vidjeti kako osjećate.
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HiBok. I'm going to askpitati you to raisepodići your armsoružje and waveval back,
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Bok. Zamolit ću vas da podignete ruke i mašete,
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just the way I am -- kindljubazan of a royalkraljevski waveval.
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ovako kao ja – kraljevski.
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You can mimicimitirati what you can see.
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Možete oponašati ono što vidite.
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You can programprogram the hundredsstotine of musclesmišići in your armruka.
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Možete programirati stotine mišića u svojoj ruci.
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SoonUskoro, you'llvi ćete be ableu stanju to look insideiznutra your brainmozak and programprogram,
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A ubrzo, moći ćete pogledati u svoj mozak i programirati,
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controlkontrolirati the hundredsstotine of brainmozak areaspodručja that you see there.
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kontrolirati stotine moždanih regija koje tamo vidite.
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I'm going to tell you about that technologytehnologija.
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Pričat ću vam o toj tehnologiji.
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People have wanted to look insideiznutra the humanljudski mindum,
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Ljudi su u ljudski um i ljudski mozak
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the humanljudski brainmozak, for thousandstisuća of yearsgodina.
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htjeli pogledati već tisućama godina.
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Well, comingdolazak out of the researchistraživanje labslaboratoriji just now, for our generationgeneracija, is the possibilitymogućnost to do that.
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Iz istraživačkih laboratorija našoj generaciji upravo stiže mogućnost to učiniti.
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People envisionpredvidjeti this as beingbiće very difficulttežak.
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Ljudi misle da je to jako teško.
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You had to take a spaceshipsvemirski brod, shrinkse smanjiti it down, injectubrizgati it into the bloodstreamkrvotok.
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Morali ste uzeti svemirski brod, smanjiti ga i ubrizgati ga u krvotok.
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It was terriblyužasno dangerousopasno. (LaughterSmijeh)
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Bilo je strašno opasno.
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You could be attackednapadnut by whitebijela bloodkrv cellsStanice in the arteriesarterije.
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Mogle su vas napasti bijele krvne stanice u arterijama.
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But now, we have a realstvaran technologytehnologija to do this.
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Ali sada imamo pravu tehnologiju za to.
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We're going to flyletjeti into my colleaguekolega Peter'sPetra brainmozak.
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Uletjet ćemo u mozak mog kolege Petera.
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We're going to do it non-invasivelyNe hrane usingkoristeći MRIMRI.
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Učinit ćemo to neinvazivno koristeći MRI.
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We don't have to injectubrizgati anything. We don't need radiationradijacija.
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Ne moramo ništa ubrizgati. Ne treba nam radijacija.
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We will be ableu stanju to flyletjeti into the anatomyanatomija of Peter'sPetra brainmozak -- literallydoslovce, flyletjeti into his bodytijelo --
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Moći ćemo uletjeti u anatomiju Peterovog mozga – doslovno uletjeti u njegovo tijelo –
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but more importantlyvažnije, we can look into his mindum.
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ali još važnije, možemo pogledati unutar njegovog uma.
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When PeterPetar movespotezi his armruka, that yellowžuta boja spotmjesto you see there
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Kada Peter pomakne svoju ruku, ova žuta točka je mjesto
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is the interfacesučelje to the functioningfunkcioniranje of Peter'sPetra mindum takinguzimanje placemjesto.
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gdje Peterov um obavlja tu funkciju.
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Now you've seenvidio before that with electrodeselektrode you can controlkontrolirati roboticrobotski armsoružje,
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Već ste vidjeli da se uz pomoć elektroda mogu kontrolirati robotske ruke,
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that brainmozak imagingobrada slike and scannersSkeneri can showpokazati you the insidesunutrašnjost of brainsmozak.
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da snimanje i skeniranje mozga može pokazati unutrašnjost mozga.
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What's newnovi is that that processpostupak has typicallytipično takenpoduzete daysdana or monthsmjeseci of analysisanaliza.
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Za taj posao su trebali dani ili mjeseci analize.
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We'veMoramo collapsedpropali that throughkroz technologytehnologija to millisecondsmilisekundi,
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Nova tehnologija smanjuje to vrijeme na milisekunde.
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and that allowsomogućuje us to let PeterPetar to look at his brainmozak in realstvaran time as he's insideiznutra the scannerskener.
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To omogućuje Peteru da gleda svoj mozak u stvarnom vremenu dok je u procesu skeniranja.
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He can look at these 65,000 pointsbodova of activationAktivacija perpo seconddrugi.
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Može gledati u ovih 65,000 pobuđenih točaka u sekundi.
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If he can see this patternuzorak in his ownvlastiti brainmozak, he can learnnaučiti how to controlkontrolirati it.
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Ako može vidjeti taj uzorak u svom mozgu, može naučiti kontrolirati ga.
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There have been threetri waysnačine to try to impactudar the brainmozak:
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Do sada se na mozak moglo utjecati na tri načina:
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the therapist'sterapeuta couchkauč, pillstablete and the knifenož.
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psihijatrijski kauč, lijekovi i nož.
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This is a fourthČetvrta alternativealternativa that you are soonuskoro going to have.
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Ovo je četvrta mogućnost koju ćete uskoro imati.
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We all know that as we formoblik thoughtsmisli, they formoblik deepduboko channelskanali in our mindsmisli and in our brainsmozak.
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Znamo da oblikovanjem misli one oblikuju dubinske kanale u našem umu i mozgu.
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ChronicKronični painbol is an exampleprimjer. If you burnspaliti yourselfsami, you pullVuci your handruka away.
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Primjerice, kronična bol. Ako se opečete, odmah odmičete ruku.
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But if you're still in painbol in sixšest months'mjeseca' or sixšest years'godine' time,
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Ali ako ste u bolovima sljedećih šest mjeseci ili šest godina,
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it's because these circuitskrugovi are producingproizvodnju painbol that's no longerviše helpingpomoć you.
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to je iz razloga što ti spojevi stvaraju bol koja vam više ne pomaže.
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If we can look at the activationAktivacija in the brainmozak that's producingproizvodnju the painbol,
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Ako možemo vidjeti aktivnost u mozgu koja stvara bol,
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we can formoblik 3D modelsmodeli and watch in realstvaran time the brainmozak processpostupak informationinformacija,
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možemo oblikovati 3D modele i promatrati u stvarnom vremenu kako mozak obrađuje informaciju.
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and then we can selectIzaberi the areaspodručja that produceproizvoditi the painbol.
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Onda možemo prepoznati područja koja stvaraju bol.
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So put your armsoružje back up and flexFlex your bicepbiceps.
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Podignite sad ruku gore i stegnite biceps.
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Now imaginezamisliti that you will soonuskoro be ableu stanju to look insideiznutra your brainmozak
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Zamislite da ćete uskoro moći gledati u svoj mozak
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and selectIzaberi brainmozak areaspodručja to do that sameisti thing.
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i odabrati područja mozga koja će napraviti tu istu stvar.
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What you're seeingvidim here is, we'veimamo selectedodabran the pathwaysputevi in the brainmozak of a chronickronični painbol patientpacijent.
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Ovdje vidite moždane putove u mozgu pacijenta s kroničnom boli.
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This maysvibanj shockšok you, but we're literallydoslovce readingčitanje this person'sosobe brainmozak in realstvaran time.
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Možda će vas šokirati, ali doslovno čitamo mozak te osobe u stvarnom vremenu.
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They're watchinggledanje theirnjihov ownvlastiti brainmozak activationAktivacija,
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Oni gledaju svoju osobnu moždanu aktivnost
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and they're controllingkontrolni the pathwaystaza that producesproizvodi theirnjihov painbol.
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te kontroliraju putove koji stvaraju njihovu bol.
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They're learningučenje to flexFlex this systemsistem that releasesza tisak theirnjihov ownvlastiti endogenousendogeni opiatesopijata.
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Uče kako poticati sustav koji otpušta njihove vlastite, endogene opijate.
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As they do it, in the upperGornji left is a displayprikaz
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Dok to rade, gore lijevo se prikazuje
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that's yokeddoći do izražaja to theirnjihov brainmozak activationAktivacija of theirnjihov ownvlastiti painbol beingbiće controlleddirigovan.
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njihova moždana aktivnost i kontrole njihove boli.
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When they controlkontrolirati theirnjihov brainmozak, they can controlkontrolirati theirnjihov painbol.
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Dok kontroliraju svoj mozak, mogu kontrolirati svoju bol.
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This is an investigationalproizvoda technologytehnologija,
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Ovo je tehnologija koja se istražuje,
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but, in clinicalklinički trialsispitivanja, we're seeingvidim a 44 to 64 percentposto decreasesmanjenje in chronickronični painbol patientspacijenti.
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ali u kliničkim pokusima smo primjetili 44 do 64 posto smanjenja kronične boli pacijenata.
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This is not "The MatrixMatrica." You can only do this to yourselfsami. You take controlkontrolirati.
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Ovo nije «Matrix». Možete to učiniti samo na sebi. Vi preuzimate kontrolu.
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I've seenvidio insideiznutra my brainmozak. You will too, soonuskoro.
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Gledao sam unutar svog mozga. I vi ćete, uskoro.
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When you do, what do you want to controlkontrolirati?
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Kada uđete unutra, što želite kontrolirati?
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You will be ableu stanju to look at all the aspectsaspekti that make you yourselfsami, all your experiencesiskustva.
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Moći ćete pogledati sve strane koje čine vašu osobnost, sva vaša iskustva.
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These are some of the areaspodručja we're workingrad on todaydanas that I don't have time to go into in detaildetalj.
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Ovo su neka područja na kojima danas radimo, no nemamo sada vremena ulaziti u detalje.
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But I want to leavenapustiti with you the bigvelika questionpitanje.
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Ali želim vam ostaviti veliko pitanje.
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We are the first generationgeneracija that's going to be ableu stanju to enterUnesi into,
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Mi smo prva generacija koja će moći ući unutar uma
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usingkoristeći this technologytehnologija, the humanljudski mindum and brainmozak.
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i mozga koristeći tehnologiju.
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Where will we take it?
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Kako ćemo to upotrijebiti?
Translated by Romana Perković
Reviewed by Predrag Pale

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Christopher deCharms - Brain researcher
Christopher deCharms is working on a way to use fMRI scans to show brain activity -- in real time.

Why you should listen

Neuroscientist Christopher deCharms is helping to develop a new kind of MRI that allows doctor and patient to look inside the brain in real time -- to see visual representations of brain processes as they happen. With his company Omneuron, deCharms has developed technology they call rtfMRI, for "real-time functional MRI" -- which is exactly what it sounds like. You move your arm, your brain lights up. You feel pain, your brain lights up.

How could we use the ability to see our brains in action? For a start, to help treat chronic pain with a kind of biofeedback; being able to visualize pain can help patients control it. And longer-term uses boggle the mind. Ours is the first generation, he believes, to be able to train and build our minds as systematically as a weightlifter builds a muscle. What will we do with this?

deCharms is also the author of the book Two Views of Mind, studying Buddhist theories of perception from a neuroscientist's perspective.

More profile about the speaker
Christopher deCharms | Speaker | TED.com

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