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FOOTNOTES: Email me! thebluelightpod@gmail.com Tweet: @bluelightpod Facebook: @bluelightpod Journal Club Articles: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010945217302241 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/07/17/bjsports-2018-099198 References: Bevan S (1999) Nociceptive peripheral neurons: cellular properties in Textbook of pain, wall PD & Melzack R Eds. Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh Melzack R, Rose G & McGinty D (1962) Skin sensitivity to thermal stimuli. Exp Neurol 6: 300-314 Meyer RA, Campbell JN & Srinivasa NR (1994) Peripheral neural mechanisms of nociception, in textbook of pain, Wall PD & Melzack R Eds. Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh Next week’s journal club: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/the-scientific-paper-is-obsolete/556676/ There will be a second article, but I have a few to choose from so check facebook and twitter for the link. The episode at large will be about scholarly journals, and I encourage you to listen to the most recent episode of The Dollop which touches on that very topic. Have a great week!  

In which Brian discusses how cool neuroplasticity is, and also why having too many social media accounts can be kind of annoying, but also helpful. Twitter: @bluelightpod Facebook @bluelightpod Gmail: thebluelightpod@gmail.com

How do we make convincing arguments in the age of fake news, AND the mathematics of noticing change! Two listeners named David have questions, journal club, and an ad! Nociception is not the same as pain! On P-Values for next week’s journal club http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2016/03/p-values.aspx https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00031305.2016.1154108 Email: thebluelightpod@gmail.com Twitter: @bluelightpod Facebook: @bluelightpod  

This week: why do researchers do research?   thebluelightpod@gmail.com https://facebook.com/bluelightpod https://twitter.com/bluelightpod

This week, all about Franz Mesmer and the origins of hypnosis! Footnotes: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franz-Anton-Mesmer Honestly, I was a bad researcher this week and mainly used the wikipedia page on Mesmer, but there are a ton of sources to back it up and they're mainly scholarly and credible at least. A lot of the primary sources are in German! I have to write a research proposal, give me a break! thebluelightpod@gmail.com

A story about an experiment and the 400 years leading up to it. Footnotes: - Moseley, GL & Arntz, A 2007, 'The context of a noxious stimulus affects the pain it evokes', Pain, vol. 133, no. 1-3, Dec 15, pp. 64-71. - Butler, D & Moseley, GL, 2013 “Explain Pain”, Noigroup Publications 2nd Edition, ISBN 978-0-9873426-6-9 - Definition of Pain: 1979 by IASP in PAIN, number 6, page 250 - “In Memoriam: John J. Bonica” PAIN (1994) Volume 59, number 1 https://www.iasp-pain.org/AboutIASP/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1129 - Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief; TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/latif_nasser_the_amazing_story_of_the_man_who_gave_us_modern_pain_relief - The myth of painless childbirth (the John J. Bonica lecture). [Review] Melzack R. Pain. 19(4):321-37, 1984 Aug. - Benedetti & Chapman “John J. Bonica: A biography”. Minerva Anestesiol 2005; 71:391-6 - Did René Descartes Have Exploding Head Syndrome? Abidemi Idowu Otaiku. J Clin Sleep Med. 2018 Apr 15; 14(4): 675–678. Published online 2018 Apr 15. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.7068 - Hugo, Martin Scorsese

Episode 1, the story of why Archie Cochrane is responsible for my work load this week. Footnotes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6440622/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235918/ https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2014/05/09/tara-lamont-on-failing-well-archie-cochranes-legacy/ "Letter to Archie Cochrane, medical pioneer, from King George VI". People's Collection Wales. 1945. "Biographical Outline of Archibald Leman Cochrane (1909-1988)". Cardiff University. https://www.insight.mrc.ac.uk/2013/10/08/behind-the-picture-archie-cochrane-and-the-welsh-coal-miners/