Who are We

The relationship between the body, the brain and the mind is complex and magnificent, which is why lots of people are investigating it. This website focuses on attempts to better understand the way the body, brain and mind interact. The lead scientist, Prof. Lorimer Moseley, is particularly interested in the role of the brain and mind in chronic and complex pain disorders. Through collaborations with clinicians, scientists, patients and thoughtful friends, the team is exploring how the brain and its representation of the body change when pain persists, how the mind influences physiological regulation of the body, how the changes in the brain and mind can be normalised via treatment, and how we can teach people about it all in a way that is both interesting and accurate.  This website includes links to published articles, current projects, teaching resources for clinicians and lecturers, books, seminars and conferences and other info that the team thinks is intriguing, important or irresistible.

The Body in Mind team includes collaborators in research experiments and clinical trials, bloggers who are kind enough to contribute to the BiM blog, and our research team here at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and University of South Australia (UniSA)

Dr Lorimer Moseley

Lorimer is Professor of Clinical Neurosciences and University of South Australia’s inaugural Chair in Physiotherapy where he works as a clinician and researcher with a special interest in pain and brain sciences. He completed his doctorate in medicine at the University of Sydney and post-doctorates at the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney.  In 2004, he was the first allied health professional to be appointed Nuffield Medical Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK. He returned to Australia to take up an NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) before being appointed Professor of Clinical Neurosciences at UniSA.

Lorimer runs the Body in Mind Research group. He has written over 100 scholarly works (link to Lorimer’s published research here), and is a regular keynote speaker at major international interdisiplinary meetings. He is Associate Editor for Pain, European Journal of Pain & British Journal of Sports Medicine. He is International Advisor for Manual Therapy, author of Painful Yarns. Metaphors & stories to help understand the biology of pain, and co-author with David Butler, of Explain Pain, which is a key international text for pain sciences.  Lorimer makes pancakes with wholemeal flour and oatmeal and they are really very good. No seriously, they are. Bit of lemon and sugar…maple syrup perhaps……..

Here is a 4 minute blurb on what we are doing at BiM and a little on why we are doing it.

Link to Collaborators - the people with whom we are doing real life research.

Click on Research Groups to see who eats lunch together on Tuesdays.