BodyinMind
Blog URL http://www.bodyinmind.com.au
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags pain, CRPS, rsds, rehabilitation, bodyinmind, lorimer moseley, physical therapy, neuroscience
BodyInMind looks at the relationship between the body, brain and mind in chronic and complex pain disorders. It covers neuroscience, rehabilitation, manual therapy, physical therapy, brain science and psychology.
Latest Blog Posts
- You gotta hate it when your next experiment has already been done on Nov 19, 2009 in General
We didn’t see this until very recently – after we had spent some time working out what we thought was a groovy paradigm to see if one can induce illusory ownership over a rubber hand by making it seem to be under voluntary control –...
- Training the Brain 2 – Behavioural, function and movement hierarchy on Nov 17, 2009 in Slide Presentations Training the Brain
We’re currently going through some of Lorimer’s presentations to make them freely available. We’ll post them as we get them ready under the heading of ‘Training the Brain’ – this series is focused on Complex Region...
- Summarizing The Science of Interpersonal Touch on Nov 13, 2009 in Alberto Gallace Charles Spence articles
By Alberto Gallace and Charles Spence The body surface is not only a receptive organ but also a very powerful interpersonal communication system. In fact, it has even been claimed that social touch plays one, in not ‘the’, most important role in...
- Training the Brain 1 – Cognitive, understanding the problem on Nov 10, 2009 in General
We’re currently going through some of Lorimer’s presentations to make them freely available. We’ll post them as we get them ready under the heading of ‘Training the Brain’ – this series is focused on Complex Region...
- The SmartHand project on Nov 7, 2009 in General
Mind Hacks has put us onto the SmartHand project – it is truly ambitious but if it works will be terrific for amputees (at least I think it will – one never does know what unexpected and unwanted things emerge when we are messing this ser...
- Physiologically impossible movement of phantom limbs explained on Nov 5, 2009 in Comments Neuroscience Slide Presentations
Nature mentioned our recent PNAS paper in their research highlights Neurology: Impossible movements: Scientists can alter people’s perception of their bodies by playing with their sensory input, for example by using trick mirrors or touch. No...
- Seeing your own body reduces pain caused by laser on Nov 3, 2009 in General Rubber hand
In a paper in Journal of Neuroscience by Longo et al,[1] from by Patrick Haggard’s group (in case you didn’t know, Haggard is a very big wig in the whole sensory processing/body image stuff), they describe an experiment that I reckon is c...
