PHYSICAL DISEASE FROM MENTAL STRAIN

From Mental/Physical Identity to Substance Dualism

Association of Mental Disorders With Subsequent Chronic Physical Conditions: World Mental Health Surveys From 17 Countries.

IMPORTANCE It is clear that mental disorders in treatment settings are associated with a higher incidence of chronic physical conditions, but whether this is true of mental disorders in the community, and how generalized (across a range of physical health outcomes) these associations are, is less clear. This information has important implications for mental health care and the primary preventio...

Mental-physical co-morbidity and its relationship with disability: results from the World Mental Health Surveys.

BACKGROUND The relationship between mental and physical disorders is well established, but there is less consensus as to the nature of their joint association with disability, in part because additive and interactive models of co-morbidity have not always been clearly differentiated in prior research. METHOD Eighteen general population surveys were carried out among adults as part of the Worl...

Mental models of physical causality

The aim of this paper is to present a cognitive model of causal reasoning about the psysical world and a related computational system. The cognitive model is based on the theory of mental models and on two main assumptions, the assumption of reasoning by examples and the assumption of causality by contact. The computational model has been developed using an Extended version of the Qualitative P...

Physical, neural, and mental timing.

The conclusions drawn by Benjamin Libet from his work with colleagues on the timing of somatosensorial conscious experiences has met with a lot of praise and criticism. In this issue we find three examples of the latter. Here I attempt to place the divide between the two opponent camps in a broader perspective by analyzing the question of the relation between physical timing, neural timing, and...