Body in Mind

Emotions, sleep and pain are interlinked; however, we understand little about how these aspects of our wellbeing are connected. Does a poor night’s sleep make us feel grumpy, which in […]

We had a question recently from Mensah Y Amedzo who asked: Hi Lorimer, with regards to this statement “nociception is neither sufficient nor necessary for pain” how do you explain the […]

The nociceptive system has evolved a range of intriguing characteristics. Spatial summation is one such characteristic, whereby increasing the area of a stimulus, or the distance between multiple stimuli, results […]

In recent years there has been growing interest in how pain and nociception are influenced by visual and proprioceptive inputs. Research has demonstrated that nociceptive inputs, like tactile inputs, are […]

The rate of smartphone ownership in Australia is among the highest in the world. According to the Deloitte 2015 Consumer Survey, almost 80% of Australians own a smartphone. Online technologies, […]

This is the seventh in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — I was delighted to be asked to […]

This is the sixth in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — Every day we are bombarded with expressions […]

This post is the fifth in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — For many people low back pain […]

This post is the fourth in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — What does the word ‘moral’ mean […]

This post is the third in a series of posts on BiM about chapters in the edited collection, Meanings of Pain (2016, Springer). — On the surface, the pursuit of […]