Mind‐body problem and hippocampus

William Poteat’s Anthropology: “Mindbody in the World”

The Divided the Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders

Symbolic diseases and "mindbody" co-emergence. A challenge for psychoneuroimmunology.

Physical diseases that appear to be symbolic somatic representations of patients' personal meanings or individual 'stories' continue to be reported in the medical literature. The identification of a symbolic disease requires a clinical focus upon a patient's highly individual and nuanced meanings largely rendered invisible by the usual methodologies of clinical and research medicine, which has ...

The Connection Between Spontaneous Remission of Cancer and MindBody Medicine

Perhaps the most powerful demonstration of the natural healing power of the mind and body is the “spontaneous” disappearance of a normally fatal disease such as metastatic cancer. This stunning event has been recorded by medical doctors repeatedly in the annals of medicine. Without “adequate” treatment, and sometimes no treatment at all, cancer and other diseases simply go away. While the patie...

Function of hippocampus in "insight" of problem solving.

Since the work of Wolfgang Kohler, the process of "insight" in problem solving has been the subject of considerable investigation. Yet, the neural correlates of "insight" remain unknown. Theoretically, "insight" means the reorientation of one's thinking, including breaking of the unwarranted "fixation" and forming of novel, task-related associations among the old nodes of concepts or cognitive ...