Body in Mind

Getting ready for the almighty BMJ christmas issue – here are some extracts from a classic a few years back….. Phenotypic differences between male physicians, surgeons, and film stars: comparative […]

G.L Moseley Department of Physiotherapy, University of Queensland, Australia Department of Physiotherapy, Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Australia Abstract This paper presents an approach to rehabilitation of pain patients. The fundamental […]

Posted under the heading of ‘Training the Brain’ – this series is focused on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) but relevant to all types of pain. Feel free to download […]

You might know that we LOVE using vision as a way to understand the dependence of pain on meaning. Well, watch this Ted talk video of Beau Lotto, a neuroscientist […]

With a gin and tonic in hand, David was planning the conference sessions for the upcoming NOI conference 2010 in Nottingham when I met him and began to talk about […]

G Lorimer Moseley School of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Abstract Regional anesthesia results in shrinkage of the primary sensory cortex (S1) representation of the area and the […]

Ron Melzack, of Melzack & Wall, of the gate control theory, is officially a superstar….. Ronald Melzack has won the 2010 Grawemeyer Awards for Psychology for his work on explaining pain. […]

Posted under the heading of ‘Training the Brain’ – this series is focused on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) but relevant to all types of pain. Feel free to download […]

The question as to what is and what is not part of your body seems to be a trivial one to answer, it is ‘obvious’. But this is not the case, since […]

Sensory stimuli can be processed by the brain completely “under the radar” – without ever reaching your awareness. Of course, other neural activity in your brain IS contributing to your […]