Mind Over Matter: One Person's Journey From Patient to Change-Maker

Of Mind Over . . . Matter

Mind over matter

As an invited speaker at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Manfred Eigen once stood by as his host ran through an impressive list of accolades: his work as a young researcher measuring the rates of ultrafast chemical reactions, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967; his directorship of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Chemistry in Göttingen; his contributi...

Mind over Matter: Inside Hypnobirthing

In order to examine hypnotherapy, the psycho-physiological science underpinning the practice is an important issue and is significant for the use of hypnotherapy by women in labour and birth. Contemporary literature regarding hypnotherapy and its’ side effects and limitations focuses on the culture inherent in hypnotherapy ideology, whilst the pertinent ethical issues that arise and question it...

From Physician to Patient: a Personal Journey

Going from physician to patient is a journey from which few of our tribe will be spared, and about which we have comparatively little formal reflection. This paper describes some of the lessons learned on such a journey from a retired Professor of Geriatric Medicine, whose course of vascular parkinsonism offers lessons both professional and personal.

Shaken: Journey into the Mind of a Parkinson’s Patient

JUNE is a publication of Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) www.funjournal.org Viewers watch the doctors mapping their trajectory from Magnetic Resonance Images, expertly guiding the electrode through white matter, missing the ventricles, going through the caudate and landing in the lima beansized subthalamic nucleus. “You’ve done everything you can with diet and exercise and medicati...