Body in Mind

Ever watched a TV show and been overwhelmed by a need to quickly change the channel because the humiliation experienced by the main character is so painful it hurts to […]

Human brain mapping doesn’t go back as far as one might think.  The first brain activation studies used positron emission tomography (PET) back in the late 1980s.   Functional magnetic resonance […]

Synaesthesia involves the curious experience of a sensation in one domain that is triggered by a sensation in another domain. It is surprisingly common – up to 1 in 23 […]

Most commonly used exercise therapies for back pain are aimed at having an effect on some mechanical or tissue based aspect of spinal function. From range of motion exercises to […]

In this paper, Lamm and colleagues investigate what might modulate empathy.  While there have been loads of neuroimaging studies in empathy, many have failed to recognise that empathy is highly […]

I’ve got news for those of us who thought that Italians just sat around wearing designer sunglasses and drinking fine coffee; it turns out we were wrong.  This fMRI study […]

Some of you have no doubt heard the phrase ‘pain doesn’t exist until you feel it’.  This phrase refers to the dependence that pain has on being conscious. One might […]

Serge Marchand, Ph.D. and Isabelle Gaumond, Ph.D. Women and men are different in many ways; some of these differences are obvious and some not so intuitive.  For example, pain is sexist.  […]

Our last rubber hand illusion paper attracted this comment from one of the reviewers: ‘it would take something very special to get yet another study on the rubber hand illusion […]

Professor Michael Cousins took some time to read and comment on ‘Is chronic pain a disease in its own right‘.  It was so good that we didn’t want it to […]