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, Dr 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, Lorimer’s 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 NeuRA.

Dr Lorimer Moseley

NHMRC Senior Research Fellow

Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute

Sydney, Australia

Dr Lorimer Moseley is a clinician and researcher with a special interest in pain and brain sciences. He is 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 text for pain sciences at universities throughout the world. 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 has over 75 scholarly works including articles in British Medical Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Current Biology, Brain, PAIN and Neurology. He is Associate Editor of PAIN, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and Reviews in Pain. He won Best Paper at the Would Congress of Physical Therapy, the Elsevier Award for Rehabilitation, the Cardon Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Research. In 2007, he received the Ulf Lindblom Award, given by the International Association for the Study of Pain to the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related field. He has recently returned to Sydney, where he is NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute.

Lorimer is NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at Neuroscience Research Australia where he works as a clinician and researcher with a special interest in pain and brain sciences. He is 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 text for pain sciences at universities throughout the world.

Lorimer 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 has over 75 scholarly works including articles in British Medical Journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Current Biology, Brain, PAIN and Neurology. He is Associate Editor of PAIN, the British Journal of Sports Medicine, and Reviews in Pain. He won Best Paper at the World Congress of Physical Therapy, the Elsevier Award for Rehabilitation, the Cardon Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation Research. In 2007, he received the Ulf Lindblom Award, given by the International Association for the Study of Pain to the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related field.