Body in Mind

Another oldie but goodie.  This one on what influences our enjoyment of Pringles. Sound bites – Foods that sound better taste better The pleasure we derive from eating obviously depends on […]

It’s summer time in the northern hemisphere and we thought it would be a good idea to look back over the years and post some crackers.  This one is particularly apt […]

It has long been one of my Sunday morning routines to read the Sunday New York times. In the July 12 edition of the “The Times” Joanna Burke offers an […]

In our last blog (Chronic Pain: Lost Inhibition?) we talked about the role of the thalamus in the development and maintenance of orofacial neuropathic pain. We reported that painful trigeminal […]

Margaret River in Western Australia has some of the best surfing in the world…great food and wine too…but that’s not all. There’s a bit of digital technology wave-riding happening over […]

Our thoughts shape our emotional and behavioural responses. This is a well-established principle in psychological research and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. We use preconceptions – known as “schemas” – to help […]

Asking your patient what they expect is the thing to do these days, the idea being that what they expect is likely to influence how they will end up. The […]

From the days of my infancy as a physiotherapist, I was raised on the teaching that pain should be measured by subjective means only. You have to ask the patient. […]

Everyone has a story about their back pain and one story you often hear is that the weather makes the person’s back pain worse. Topical now in Sydney as it […]

We were very fortunate to have Prof Srinivasa Raja and A/Prof Matthias Ringkamp write a post for us on the high profile papers that just came out in PAIN, both […]