When digestive disease meets art – exploring your inner self

Written by Dr Giles Major, Clinical Assistant Professor in Gastroenterology, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre. How are your bowels? It’s a simple enough question but in clinical research life is never that straightforward. In the Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre we need to quantify ‘bowel function’ so that we can measure differences between health and disease. This …

In the zone?

Interesting piece of research that crosses the murky borders of definition into art here. A collaboration between artist and filmmaker David Bickerstaff and Dr Victoria Tischler, a chartered psychologist and lecturer at the University, examines the concept of what athletes term ‘The Zone’ – the state of mind where they achieve absolute focus on their …