Research into the role of the brain in chronic pain
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 about the objects that we manipulate (e.g., whether they are soft or hard, smooth or rough, etc), but also emotional sensations regarding those interpersonal events that … [Read more...]
Paracetamol, or as you Americans call it acetaminophen, is, it seems, back in the headlines, amid concerns about new guidelines.I have a couple of thoughts on this that are vaguely connected to the story in Nature Medicine, which you can read here. First, we tend to forget how good a drug paracetamol is - Lewis Nelson, Chair of the FDA advisory … [Read more...]
We are quite excited at the moment, with studies that investigate the role of high order cognitive representations, for example the sense that one owns one's body, on perceptions as well as on physiological regulation of body tissue. We were doubly excited to be alerted by the superb Mo on Scienceblogs to a great new experimental psychology … [Read more...]
If you haven't seen Vilayanur Ramachandran's talk on what is happening in the Brain in Capgras syndrome, Phantom Limb Pain, and Synesthesia this is well worth a peek More thoughts on training the brain in CRPS: Reflections, imagery, and illusions: the past, present and future of training the brain in complex regional pain syndrome. … [Read more...]
With a gin and tonic in hand, David was planning the conference sessions for the upcoming NOI conference 2010 in Nottingham when I met him and began to talk about what some of the speakers had chosen to speak on and why it excited him: I can't help but get excited when I look at the calibre of speakers that we've managed to attract to our … [Read more...]
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