Body in Mind

We have been working for a while towards doing some experiments that involve online data collection.  These experiments will involve reaction time tasks and questionnaires.  However, many of you will […]

Paracetamol, or as you Americans call it acetaminophen, is, it seems, back in the headlines, amid concerns about new guidelines.I have a couple of thoughts on this that are vaguely […]

Dr Iain Beith, a lovely fellow with a penchant for the good things (I mean the really good things, not the reasonably good things like fine wines and live theatre), […]

It is well recognised that the sensory and motor neurons in your brain light up excitedly when you feel or do something. Now we also realise that many of those […]

Often, when you publish something in a reasonably posh journal, your mates write you a little email to say congratulations.  However, if you write a word like ‘daft’ in an […]

Here is a very cool experiment from Ed Boyden’s lab at MIT: they have used a fungus (yes, you read that right – a fungus) to turn off neurons using […]

We are quite excited at the moment, with studies that  investigate the role of high order cognitive representations, for example the sense that one owns one’s body, on perceptions as […]

Several studies have demonstrated that people can share in the emotion of someone else’s pain. Typically, when seeing someone else injured, there is a tendency to share in the aversion […]

I was, as my daughter would say, ‘totally and completely chuffed’ to read Chad Cook’s review of Painful Yarns, published in the Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy.  He captures […]

I remember sitting my folks down and sternly counselling them to make sure they learnt a completely novel skill once per decade, to ensure that their brain doesn’t turn to […]