Body in Mind

This study looked at sensory acuity at the back and the ability to perform specific movements of the back and pelvis.  By sensory acuity we mean how precise can we […]

Space-based, but not arm-based, shift in tactile processing in complex regional pain syndrome and its relationship to cooling of the affected limb G. Lorimer Moseley(a), Alberto Gallace(b)(c) and Charles Spence(c) […]

Here is a great study in which the authors investigated something we discussed in our paper Psychologically induced cooling of a specific body part…. We proposed that the cooling and […]

Making people think that the rubber hand in front of them is theirs makes their real hand colder. We used the rubber hand illusion to do this. It means we […]

We’ve just noticed a great book that has come out by Jonah Lehrer ‘How We Decide‘.  We’re about to go out and get it to read, and wanted to let you […]

Here is a cool study from Oxford University – they led participants to believe that they were applying either a ‘rich moisturising cream’ or a ‘basic cream’ to their forearm […]

We have one important caveat in relation to Freynhagen and Bennett’s review—that evidence based non-pharmacological treatment for neuropathic pain was absent.[1] Several randomised controlled trials show that graded motor imagery […]

By Dr Andrew Claus (the handsome fellow in the stripy shirt) Sitting cops a lot of bad press, but the science to compare postures is pretty weak. One of our […]

Heidrun H. Krämer(a), Susann Seddigh(b), G. Lorimer Moseley(c), Frank Birklein(a) (a) Department of Neurology, University of Mainz, Langenbeckstr. 1, 55101 Mainz, Germany (b) Department of Neurology, DRK Schmerz-Zentrum Mainz, Auf […]

The pleasure we derive from eating obviously depends on what food tastes and smells like. Visual presentation and colour are also important, as is the feel of the food in […]