Body in Mind

This really is old news but we recently stumbled across a brilliant blog post from Neuroskeptic about a controversy that erupted from a methodology paper about errors in research comparing […]

The next in our series of ‘Getting your Thesis out there’, this one from Stuart Porter. Exercise Behavior in Ankylosing Spondylitis Background: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an incurable, fluctuating, long-term condition […]

The feeling that ‘I’ am ‘here’ is a central component of our personal identity and sense of self. In a recent study[1], we asked what would happen to the representation […]

In 1986, Pat Wall and Steve McMahon commented on the folly of talking about nociception as though it is pain – ‘the labelling of nociceptors as pain fibres was not […]

Rene Descartes was a Philosopher Superstar in the 17th century. He was a French man living in The Netherlands, a devout catholic and a committed thinker. Descartes is famous for […]

I sometimes wonder if we have all been hoodwinked about the whole Roman Colosseum stories of thousands of supposedly normal everyday Romans, presumably wearing sandals (not that that is important […]

The New York Times recently published an article Evidence That Little Touches Do Mean So Much Touch is our first sense to develop, and it provides not only direct information […]

Body in Mind has made the finals of the Research Blogging Awards for the Best Blog in Psychology, THANKS to all of you who nominated us. Voting has begun, but […]

Here is some more groovy stuff – Scientific American just alerted us to a new article in J Neuroscience.  It is right up Charles Spence’s alley but I am stealing his thunder […]

There is a very clever Belgian psychologist called Stefaan Van Damme.  He has done some excellent work on attentional mechanisms involved in pain.  More importantly, however, is that he is […]