The question as to what is and what is not part of your body seems to be a trivial one to answer, it is ‘obvious’. But this is not the case, since it is possible to induce very simply the illusion of quite dramatic body changes and distortions. The...

Sensory stimuli can be processed by the brain completely “under the radar” – without ever reaching your awareness. Of course, other neural activity in your brain IS contributing to your subjective reality. This raises the question, if I isolate a...

Posted under the heading of ‘Training the Brain’ – this series is focused on Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) but relevant to all types of pain. Feel free to download and use. Training the Brain series Training the Brain 1 – Cognitive,...

Oaklander and Fields did a comprehensive review of the literature concerning the role of small-fibre neuropathy in complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)[1]. We wrote a response to this article in the Annals of Neurology to say that the review...

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 – a motor-visual...