If you get an injury, you might clench your hand.  It turns out there is a brain-related reason for that,  namely a somatosensory body one.   Perception and multisensory interactions at the spinal level.

A new report in Current Biology says 'self-touch', like hand clenching, offers significant relief for acute pain under experimental conditions and they used the Thermal Grill Illusion to show it.
A postdoc's view of the changing world of academic research

'What's on your mind?' These are the four words taunting me on my Facebook page as I wind down from a long day at work. Today that may be a tough one to answer in a witty one-liner. The postdoc union this week reached a tentative agreement with the University of California to help implement a whole host of improvements to postdoc working conditions, and I was obliged to vote for or against its ratification.