Body in Mind

Here at BiM, we do a bit of research that investigates what we call ‘bodily awareness’. We have incorporated some of that research into a recent review paper on bodily […]

I recently received an email from Vanessa Milne who is doing Post Graduate Studies in Pain Science at University of Sydney with the who’s who of Australian pain stuff – Nicholas, Cousins, […]

I am an optimist but I am thinking about jumping the fence – joining the dark side of pessimism and excessive dread. Maybe I am being a bit hasty? I […]

Whiplash is one of those conditions that often strikes fear into the hearts of clinicians, mainly because chronic whiplash is very hard to treat. This not helped by the fact […]

I reckon the rubber hand illusion is a great way to provide hard evidence that the brain produces our sensations according to the availability of credible information, not just according […]

I was reading Valery Legrain’s blog and it caused me to reflect on what sort of daily use I give my working memory. Have I needed to mentally rehearse a […]

The control of pain is certainly the central question motivating most researchers in the field of pain. This is, indeed, the peculiar aspect of pain research which has, as compared […]

One of the bits of the brain I find the toughest to understand is the insula.  We hear about it when the “pain matrix” is discussed.  The insula is part […]

In recent years there have been many debates about the disappointing results from clinical trials of treatments for non-specific low back pain. One argument has been about the targeting of […]