The BRI at MUM is starting to go mainstream it seems.

http://www.brainresearchinstitute.org/neuroimaging/index.html

Neuroimaging Laboratory
RADIOLOGY TODAY
August 4th, 2003
Imaging CAM: Scientific Investigations Indicate
Efficacy of Alternative Medicine
By Dan Harvey
[...]
TM and Pain Reaction
Two researchers who have methodically pioneered the research and
systematically scouted the terrain are David Orme-Johnson, Ph.D, adjunct
faculty of the Center for Natural Medicine and Prevention at Maharishi
University of Management and Zang Hee Cho, Ph.D., professor of radiological
sciences and of psychiatry and human behavior at the Functional Brain
Imaging Laboratory at the University of California at Irvine.
[...]
Appropriately enough, in his research, Cho, who invented positron emission
tomography (PET), employed PET in his research to measure changes in the
brain's metabolism. The technology revealed that areas of the brain became
activated or deactivated through the stimulation of certain acupuncture
points, or acupoints. As a result, he concluded that acupuncture, by
stimulating brain regulating mechanisms, or homeostatic mechanisms, could be
used to treat different diseases.
[...]
Heated Reactions
Going into the study, Cho and Orme-Johnson speculated that the brain
response to stress in the long-term TM practitioners would be less than in
non-practitioner controls. "Our working hypothesis is that long-term TM
practice develops inner stability and lower levels of anxiety, so that the
reaction to pain is not amplified by subsequent distress reactions," says
Orme-Johnson. "This has been shown independently by numerous studies and
meta-analyses."