A researcher from the University of Rochester, along with colleagues at Princeton and Yale, has been exploring how subject can learn to move objects with their brain using fMRI feedback, according to an article in Neuroscience News.

Many neuroscience laboratories have been exploring using fMRI, but neurofeedback—literally providing feedback to the brain via a mirror of its own activities—seems to be of especial interest to those trying to find novel solutions to neuropsychiatric and developmental disorders.

You can read about the research at Neuroscience News or a recently published article here.

fMRI is too cumbersome and costly for use in private offices at this time, and its applications are still in early stages, but there is a great deal of enthusiasm about its many potential uses.