This article focuses on Descartes’s vision how the dimensions of organism connect with each other. Re-reading Descartes is proposed as an antidote against endemic cultural dualism, in a world which medical institutions, still describe human beings using dualistic terms such ‘psychosomatic’, ‘body psychotherapy’, or ‘body-mind’ systems. It also introduces early scientific researcher who develope...

One of the most relevant clinical symptoms of AN for the cognitive psychologist is the strong distortion of the mental representation of the body [1]. Patients suffering from AN (most of whom are young women) often report feeling fatter and larger than they really are. Even though a slight (<5%) overestimation bias is found in healthy women, the phenomenon is significantly exaggerated in patien...

Headache is one of the most common and enigmatic problems encountered by family physicians. Headache is not a singular entity, and different pathologic mechanisms are involved in distinct types of headache. Most types of headache involve dysfunction of peripheral or central nociceptive mechanisms. Mind-body therapies such as biofeedback, cognitive behavior therapy, hypnosis, meditation, and rel...

The primary goals of this Special Issue are to encourage readers to become more familiar with the range of mind-body therapies and to explore their application in the pediatric clinical setting. The Special Issue includes a deliberate mix of case studies and practical clinical guidance, with the dual goals of piquing curiosity and providing resources for clinicians interested in pursuing furthe...

“Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview” is one of five background papers on the major areas of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The series was prepared as part of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine’s (NCCAM’s) strategic planning efforts for the years 2005 to 2009. These brief reports should not be viewed as comprehensive or definitive reviews. Rather, they are...

A core requirement of human-like intelligent agents is the ability to create and dynamically maintain mental models of other agents. We suggest that such modeling capabilities must extend beyond traditional notions of “mindreading” to include inferring unobservable features of other agents’ bodies and emotions as well. We describe the modeling of agents endowed with a mind, body and emotions wi...

Among lean populations, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is rare. Among those with increased adiposity, CVD is the commonest cause of worldwide death. The "obesity paradox" describes seemingly contrary relationships between body fat and health/ill-health. Multiple obesity paradoxes exist, and include the anatomic obesity paradox, physiologic obesity paradox, demographic obesity paradox, therapeutic...

This article intends to make an analysis about the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Knowledge Management (KM). Faced with the dualism mind and body how we be able to see it AI? It doesn't intent to create identical copy of human being, but try to find the better form to represent all the knowledge contained in our minds. The society of the information lives a great paradox, at the same time...

Obesity is a growing public health problem in the general population, and significantly increases the risk for the development of new-onset heart failure (HF). However, in the setting of chronic HF, overweight and mild to moderate obesity is associated with substantially improved survival compared to normal-weight patients. Evidence exists for an "obesity paradox" in HF, with the majority of da...