Jo Marchant

Virtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear

By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.

• Jo Marchant
• January 31, 2017

Training the Brain to Heal the Body

A small body of immune-system research suggests that Pavlovian conditioning may be an effective tool in helping patients fight disease.

• Jo Marchant
• February 10, 2016