Body in Mind

Not an immediately obvious pairing, but still a bit more logical than a shop I once visited in UlaanBataar that sold saucepans, fur coats and guns (actually now that I […]

We have just stumbled across a paper that is very intriguing if you are not up with this tricky little evolutionary twist. Tim Bruckner and colleagues at University of California […]

When you hurt your neck in a car accident, what are the chances that you will get better? Well, Michele Sterling’s research team has put aside its Jacaranda Gazing and […]

I have just been in Montreal for the World Congress on Pain – numerous presentations and about 1600 posters.  It is the posters I really like – can be intimidating […]

Some time ago we posted an article that showed that a unicellular organism called slimeball could solve the planning of the British rail network better than the Brits did. Now […]

We (ok, I) have been a bit slow on the uptake here, but Mindhacks posted a typically excellent piece lamenting the use of ‘neuroplasticity’. Vaughan, in typically excellent style, argues […]

I met a fellow called Max. He was impressive with his command of the facts.  He does some cool studies.  He’s not one of the Luddies.  And certainly not one […]

Solving the take-away coffee induced black-tipped nose problem A little while ago we ran an experiment of sorts to test the hypothesis that the length of one’s nose was positively related […]

It is tempting, in research, to apply the normal rules of summation – where adding one treatment that you think is effective to another treatment that you think is effective […]

Some time ago, I wrote this paper, at the request of the journal Physical Therapy Reviews, on reconceptualising pain. It is a little old now but it has come to […]