Body in Mind

Tactile acuity at the back from BodyIn Mind Lorimer Moseley G(a)(b); Zalucki Nadia M(c)(d); Wiech Katja(b) (a) Pain Imaging Neuroscience Group, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, Le Gros Clark […]

A new way of investigating and potentially treating the brain with ridiculous detail is catching on. We have spotted this, again in MIT’s Technology Review, summarising stuff on optogenetics from […]

A picture is worth a thousand words – 100 years of visualising the brain.  In this MIT Technology Review, Moheb Costandi collects 10 pictures that cover the last 100 years […]

For those who missed ABC’s Australian coverage – here is the link to our article just published in the PNAS with extracts and news coverage. Interdependence of movement and anatomy […]

That magnificent imagination that kids have and that we somehow tend to lose as we grow up (why is that?) is apparently a powerful ally in attempts to reduce the […]

Graded Motor Imagery for Chronic Pain View more documents from BodyIn Mind. Abstract Complex regional pain syndrome type 1 (CRPS1) involves cortical abnormalities similar to those observed in phantom pain […]

Listen to the radio tomorrow.  Those in the know have given us a tip off that Lorimer’s groovy experiment with Peter Brugger is going to get some air time on […]

More than a century ago, Harvard Professor Charles Burnett described a set of experiments in which healthy volunteers moved their hands in front of a mirror(1). He reported that watching the reflection of their own […]

If only it was always this easy!  Actually, if only it was EVER this easy.  Still, there is nothing like an unorthodox approach to patient-clinician relationships to convince a patient […]

Mirror therapy has attracted a lot of attention recently, here are extracts from a paper reviewing some of the evidence. G. Lorimer Moseley[1], Alberto Gallace[2], Charles Spence[3] [1] Department of […]