The Brain Behind Pain - Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

Trauma in the Mind and Pain in the Body: Mind-Body Interactions in Psychogenic Pain

Psychogenic pain is a kind of pain in which no organic or structural cause is found. The main mechanism proposed for the development of this condition is psychological trauma and suppression of painful emotions. Actually when a person encounters unacceptable and unbearable events, it evokes unpleasant emotions like anger and fear. If the person cannot accept and express these emotions, as a def...

The mind-body connection: not just a theory anymore.

The field of psychoneuroimmunology has witnessed an explosion of empirical findings during the last two decades. Research has documented the mechanisms through which stressful emotions alter white blood cell function. Stress diminishes white blood cell response to viral infected cells and to cancer cells. Moreover, vaccination is less effective in those who are stressed and wounds heal less rea...

Les neurosciences The brain : body and mind

The heart-mind connection.

A clear connection exists between mental health and heart disease, which requires assessment, collaboration with other professionals, and behavioral health interventions. Psychosocial factors such as stress, anger, anxiety, and depression promote heart disease. Alternately, the use of mood-enhancing or stress-reducing techniques--such as optimism, meditation, counseling, exercise, and imagery--...

Quantum Mechanical Approach to the Connection between Mind and Brain

The current mainstream scientific approach to understanding the connection between mind and brain is based essentially upon the precepts of classical physics. According to those principles, the mind-brain connection is fundamentally bottom-up: mental events are imagined to be determined by physical activities in the brain, and to have no capacity to influence brain activities in ways not tracea...