Body in Mind

Why we have a placebo effect – Part II By Peter Blanch continued…. Bruce Hood (Hood 2009) in his book “Supersense: why we believe in the unbelievable” makes a couple of […]

Why we have a placebo effect – Part I By Peter Blanch For a long time now, I have stood with my feet precariously placed on two icebergs that sometimes […]

So the World Cup justifiably goes to Spain and it seems that Paul, the now world famous psychic octopus, predicted the results.  In fact Paul demonstrated a seemingly legendary clairvoyant […]

BMC Neurology has just published the findings of a group of Dutch researchers in their quest to develop multidisciplinary guidelines for treatment of CRPS[1].  They looked at literature from 1980 […]

The last post described a new paper in BMC Neurology suggesting guidelines for the treatment of CRPS. They also discussed prevention. They concluded that people who fracture their wrist should […]

We are lucky enough to have three rather clever and certainly friendly med students working on some research studies.  This post is from Rahul – it is about a paper […]

Cross-modal associations are intriguing. Why should we prefer to associate certain shapes to certain words? I still remember my brother, although not a psychologist, asking everyone at a family dinner […]

Australia is, I think, the home of the Flat White – a coffee that is a bit like a latte with less milk and that has quite recently started infiltrating […]

Here is a leading authority in the rheumatology/clinical epidemiology world, talking about a commentary she did on tennis elbow for the Canadian Medical Journal…. Lateral epicondylitis or ‘tennis elbow’ is […]

Here is a review that, if you are interested in how the brain controls muscles, and you are prepared to put in some hard yards, you should read. Simon Gandevia […]