Christopher deCharms

Currently, deCharms is the founder and CEO of Brainful, a life-sciences companies focused on neurotechnology, including technology based on imaging methods that allow people to watch the activation of their own brains 'live' using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Two Views of Mind attempts to begin building a scientific basis for the effective application of technology to invoke, on-demand, the effects of deep meditation which would allow people to reach mental states previously attainable only by those with many years of focused training.

An overview of this field, applications of real-time functional brain imaging, is provided in deCharms' TED talk.

DeCharms and a team of collaborative researchers have explored whether people can learn to control patterns of activation taking place inside their own brains.

Research on rtfMRI-based training has been published in the scientific literature and has also been broadly covered in the popular press including The New York Times,[2] BBC, NPR, Wired, Technology Review.