Body in Mind

I know that many of you out there are ‘in the ‘hood’ with respect to writing and reviewing manuscripts. For the rest of you, here are some reviews we got […]

James Kerr on the Didge: James has finished up at BiM and is on his way to Germany. He has an extra trick in his bag for when the Euro […]

A human foetus can do it, as can a newt, even a starfish has got it nailed; yet when it comes to you and I, regeneration is a struggle. That […]

Here at Brunel I run an MSc module on evidence based practice. In the first session of the module I run an honesty test. Here it is (answer it yourself […]

I had the pleasure of meeting Steven George at the American Pain Society meeting. He has done some excellent work and is part of a truly impressive group of people […]

In the last post, I put Explaining Pain (EP) through its paces on the Burns test of 5 criteria that need to be met if we are to accept a […]

There are not too many conferences now in which I don’t get the question over tea and biscuits about whether or not I believe in this therapy or that. I […]

I love hearing Vania Apkarian speak. He is always so positive about his data and so forthright in his views that you have no doubt what he thinks and no […]

Immune activation can produce some powerful and longlasting behaviour changes. Take single event learning for example (Ader and Cohen 1975) – the seminal study that  proved that the immune system […]

Perhaps our language has always hinted at the involvement of glial cells in injury?  And, when glial cells outnumber neurons in the brain by 20 to 1, it begs the […]