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I have a challenge for you. Imagine you’re in ancient China and you’ve had this idea that health and disease hang on the flow of energy through invisible energy pathways […]
Placebo effects are a great way to start a conversation, particularly if one is at a Clinical Trials Festival. Rather than being fascinated by the possibilities of the brain’s internal […]
Every now and then I stumble across a paper that evokes the reaction “I wish I’d though of that”. Such a paper recently turned up in the journal Rheumatology by […]
Some time ago, we were inspired by some debate in the literature on whether the term neuroplasticity was overdone. Cooked up. Passe. It is timely to revisit this now, for […]
Descending modulation, descending inhibition, descending noxious inhibitory control, descending inhibitory noxious control etc etc etc, are used interchangeably and I wish they weren’t. A recent article in PAIN has looked […]
The clinical sciences literature is full of examples of an association between two variables being mistaken for causation. How many treatments are based on strong evidence that ‘this’ and ‘that’ […]
Some take the tube, others the train…The Amazing Race in the brain It makes sense that we need to process and respond to some stuff we see quicker than other […]
We’ve all wondered how to get our patients to change their life habits (to the better of course…in our minds). In fact, the behavioural and physical therapies depend on us […]
Diane Jacobs and David Fluecke put us onto this. It is a short doco-style film on Ron Melzack, who is half of Melzack and Wall – the authors of the famous […]
Numerous studies involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain, tell us that chronic back pain (CBP) alters brain function well beyond the feeling of pain and can cause […]