Body in Mind

Numerous studies involving functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the brain, tell us that chronic back pain (CBP) alters brain function well beyond the feeling of pain and can cause […]

Bud Craig’s 2009 paper: How do you feel—now?  The anterior insula and human awareness brings together findings of numerous authors in a discussion of functional imaging of the anterior insular […]

If you knock your hand arm on something sharp, what is the first thing you do? I bet most of you say ‘rub it better’.  We take that automatic response […]

When I remember primary school, I remember one of my teachers cutting snot out of his nose with a pair of scissors when he thought no-one was looking. When I […]

Having written a number of posts on acupuncture (see here, here, and here) I guess my particular biases are reasonably apparent. So imagine my surprise when a large RCT published […]

I love Science. I love reading about science, I love doing science and I love thinking about how science can be applied to helping patients. But what I really love […]

To mark 10 years of Nature Reviews Neuroscience this month the journal has produced a kind of retrospective of the most highly cited reviews from each year. I got around […]

For those of you who have done one, you will know that finishing your PhD can be a bit like sailing in front of Wild Oats in the Sydney to […]

Mirror neurons are famous. Some would argue that they are too famous for their own good, others would say that they are the biggest discovery since Dennis Lillee got caught […]

I’m a little late to this one but an interesting disagreement recently emerged in the letters to the editor in the journal Pain. This focused around a recent study from […]