“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...

Body and mind are involved in the development of a heart attack. As far as the body is concerned, the analysis of heart activity shows a defective PNS. On a mental level, psychosomatic research has produced hard facts that show that suppressing feelings and depression, social isolation and constant negative stress, accompanied by an exaggerated desire for recognition, all play an important role...

Insulin can get a bum rap. Although a mainstay of diabetes treatment, when secretion increases in response to a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet or insulin resistance, insulin has been purported to raise blood pressure, potentiate cardiovascular risk, and, to make matters worse, promote weight gain (1,2). But many in the lay public, popular media, and health care are not aware (or choose not to ...

An old philosophical problem, the mind-body problem, has not been yet solved by philosophers or scientists. Even if in cognitive neuroscience has been a stunning development in the last 20 years, the mind-body problem remained unsolved. Even if the majority of researchers in this domain accept the identity theory from an ontological viewpoint, many of them reject this position from an epistemol...

Our understanding of the vast collection of microbes that live on and inside us (microbiota) and their collective genes (microbiome) has been revolutionized by culture-independent "metagenomic" techniques and DNA sequencing technologies. Most of our microbes live in our gut, where they function as a metabolic organ and provide attributes not encoded in our human genome. Metagenomic studies are ...

the theory of dualism, i.e. duality of mind and body is, from most of the religious scholars and theologian's point of view, a theoretical basis for believes to hereafter. today the doctrine of physicalism is the most important challenge against dualism and whereby, mind and its moods, either are unrealistic and illusion (eliminative physicalism), or reductive physicalism; i.e. reduce them...

We all have in mind Einstein’s famous thought experiment the elevator where we observe free fall of a body, and then trajectory light ray. Here, addition to qualitative aspect, exact calculations are carried out, worldlines equations given. A uniformly accelerated reference frame rectilinear translation is considered, it shown that trajectories particles semi-ellipses with center on event horiz...

This paper puts forward an ontology that is indebted to QBism, Kant, Bohr, Schrödinger, the philosophy of Upanishads, and evolutionary Sri Aurobindo. Central it reality relative consciousness or experience. Instead a single mind-independent reality, there are different poises consciousness, including which “we all really only various aspects One” (Schrödinger). helps clear up unresolved issues ...

richard mckay rorty (1932-2007) is the american neo-pragmatist. criticizing the prevalent issues of traditional philosophy such as truth, knowledge, objectivity, logic and philosophy, he considers epistemology a modern subject which emerged via forging the mind by rene descartes. in his view, separation of mind–body is an unprecedented matter created in descartes philosophy. he thinks that, i...