Body in Mind — Research into the role of the brain in chronic pain

Oh my goodness….how embarrassing!

27 December 2011 BiM Team

Ever watched a TV show and been overwhelmed by a need to quickly change the channel because the humiliation experienced by the main character is so painful it hurts to watch?

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Timing is everything

22 December 2011 BiM Team

It’s such early days for brain mapping, it makes sense that most of the experiments we see follow similar formats, particularly when it comes to data analysis. This paper has broken one of the ‘rules’ while researching the pain experience in fibromyalgia patients.

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Your body in my mind in my body

20 December 2011 Body In Mind

Synaesthesia involves the curious experience of a sensation in one domain that is triggered by a sensation in another domain. It is surprisingly common – the most common being the experience of colour for days of the week, followed by the experience of colour for letters…

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Exercise for chronic back pain: The beige trouser effect?

16 December 2011 Back pain

Most commonly used exercise therapies for back pain are aimed at having an effect on some mechanical or tissue based aspect of spinal function. A new review has taken the issues of exercise therapy for low back pain and subgroups and looked at the data in a different way.

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Not just another empathy study

13 December 2011 BiM Team

What might modulate empathy? What might alter perception of pain in others? What is activated in my brain when I see someone else in pain?

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Regret, empathy, espresso

9 December 2011 BiM Team

I’ve got news for those of us who thought that Italians just sat around wearing designer sunglasses and drinking fine coffee; it turns out we were wrong. This study looking at empathy and regret by a group in Milan is a pearler…

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Consciousness – solved. Next stop – pain.

6 December 2011 BiM Team

‘Pain does not exist until you feel it’. This phrase refers to the dependence that pain has on being conscious. We may be better placed to solve the pain problem if we first solved the consciousness problem. What is the consciousness problem?

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Pain is sexist. Sex Hormones and Anxiety Modulate Brain Responses to Painful Stimuli

2 December 2011 Body In Mind

Women and men are different in many ways; some of these differences are obvious and some not so intuitive. For example, pain is sexist. The burning question is who between men and woman is more tolerant to pain?

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A haptic glove and a head-tracking software – illusory ownership induced without touch

29 November 2011 Bodily awareness

Our last rubber hand illusion paper attracted this comment from one of the reviewers: ‘it would take something very special to get yet another study on the rubber hand illusion into a journal like this one’…

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In response to ‘Is chronic pain a disease in its own right?’

25 November 2011 Body In Mind

Prof. Michael Cousins took some time to comment on ‘Is chronic pain a disease in its own right’. It was so good that we didn’t want it to get lost so we have made it a post in its own right. Here he is…

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How should we measure body awareness?

22 November 2011 BiM Team

Here at BiM, we do a bit of research that investigates what we call ‘bodily awareness’. We have incorporated some of that research into a recent review paper on bodily illusions in health and disease. Humbly speaking, that is worth a read if you are interested in the bodily illusions stuff like the rubber hand illusion and the use of vision to distort bodily awareness. That is not the point of this post however. The point of this post is to highlight a very decent systematic review from a couple of years ago. The paper looks at…

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