More on the complex interaction between us and our environment….
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 a jolly nice...
View ArticleThere are side effects, and there are real side effects
The NEJM just posted this entry that clearly shows that when clinicians report side effects of the drugs that their patient is taking, their reports don’t agree with what patients report....
View ArticleChronic back pain – when research comes out of the blue
Research has just produced results in chronic back pain that can only be described as amazing. The temptation is to say “unbelievable”. This trial published in the worlds premier pain journal is...
View ArticleNow the expert talks about SMOUNDS
The five senses are usually studied in isolation and there is no doubt that this ‘divide and conquer’ method has given us very valuable insight into the way the brain processes sensory information....
View ArticleMirror mirror in my brain, are you the answer to every-thaing
Jeisea alerted us to what I think is a superb blog post by Greg Hickok Center for Cognitive Neuroscience University of California, Irvine on mirror neurons, inspired by a study out of UCL in London and...
View ArticleFaulty input makes you feel funny, but doesn’t hurt
There is a really attractive theory that has been used to explain why some people have chronic ongoing pain even though there is nothing wrong in the body part that hurts. The theory suggests that the...
View ArticleDon’t Drink in the Dark
Mosquitoes, or mozzies as we would call them here in Australia, come out at night. I know this in part because I have witnessed the massacre of my good friend Donaldo Becoccini on a fateful evening in...
View ArticleSearching for Rene Descartes or just ‘knowing’ he is there
Thanks to Daniel Hawes at twenty2five.blogspot, we were alerted to a recent paper in Psychological Science that investigated how easily people correct their beliefs[1]. Now, you have to know that the...
View ArticleUp close and personal with movement – a review from the experts
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 works down the corridor from me, so do...
View ArticleHere is fearfully and wonderfully complex for yer
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 Irvine and Berkeley,...
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