Examples of mind-body medicine in the following topics:
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- Mind-body medicine takes a holistic approach to health that explores the interconnection between the mind, body, and spirit.
- Mind-body medicine takes a holistic approach to health that explores the interconnection between the mind, body, and spirit.
- Manipulative and body-based practices feature manipulation or movement of body parts, such as is done in chiropractic and osteopathic manipulation.
- Integrative medicine is the combination of the practices and methods of alternative/complementary medicine with conventional medicine.
- It may include preventive medicine and patient-centered medicine.
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- Mental illness contains a diverse factors that contribute to the health of the mind.
- Conditions of the body or mind that cause pain, dysfunction, or distress can be deemed an illness.
- According to evolutionary medicine, much illness is not directly caused by an infection or body dysfunction, but is instead a response created by the body.
- Evolutionary medicine calls this set of responses "sickness behavior. "
- A researcher studying a part of the human body in search for illness.
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- Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that involves the application of radioactive substances to diagnose or treat disease.
- In nuclear medicine procedures, radionuclides are combined with other elements to form chemical compounds.
- This property of radiopharmaceuticals allows nuclear medicine the ability to image the extent of a disease process in the body.
- This process is unlike a diagnostic X-ray, where external radiation is passed through the body to form an image.
- The radiopharmaceuticals used in nuclear medicine therapy emit ionizing radiation that travels only a short distance.
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- The symptoms of stress can affect both the body and the mind.
- There are several different approaches to the management of stress including conventional medicine, alternative medicine, and self-help therapies.
- While external stressors can produce valid and measurable stress in the body, this reaction is entirely dependent on the appraisal formed by the stressed person.
- As with alternative medicine, alternative stress therapies are not rooted in the scientific method, but rather have non-evidence-based healing effects.
- In yoga teaching, the seven chakras are believed to be the source and manifestation of all stress and disease in the body.
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- Body-oriented psychotherapies focus on the importance of working with the body in the treatment of mental health issues.
- Body-oriented therapies, also referred to as body psychotherapies, are based on the principles of somatic psychology, which involves the study of the body, somatic experience, and the embodied self, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body.
- There is an increasing use of body-oriented therapeutic techniques within mainstream psychology (such as the practice of mindfulness), and psychoanalysis has recognized the use of such concepts as somatic resonance and embodied trauma.
- Yoga as exercise or alternative medicine is a modern phenomenon that has been influenced by the ancient Indian practice of hatha yoga.
- Reich's work significantly influenced the development of body psychotherapy; several types of body-oriented psychotherapies trace their origins back to Reich, though there have been many subsequent developments and additional influences.
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- René Descartes, a French mathematician and philosopher from the 1600s, theorized that the body and mind are separate entities, a concept that came to be known as dualism.
- According to dualism, the body is a physical entity with scientifically measurable behavior, while the mind is a spiritual entity that cannot be measured because it transcends the material world.
- As this view holds that the mind and body are one and the same, it later became known as monism.
- The fields of psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral medicine explicitly focus on this interconnection.
- Built on structuralism's concern with the anatomy of the mind, functionalism led to greater concern with the functions of the mind, and later, to behaviorism.
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- It is a body of knowledge distinct from modern, scientific medicine but may coexist in the same culture.
- Herbal medicine is an aspect of folk medicine that involves the use of gathered plant parts to make teas, poultices, or powders that purportedly effect cures.
- Western medicine approaches health care from two angles.
- Western medicine is notably secular in name, officially indifferent to ideas of the supernatural or the spirit, and officially concentrated on the body and society to determine causes and cures, but throughout history religious organizations and institutions (especially with corporate or economic backing) have exerted considerable influence upon much Western Scientific medical development and practice).
- The term alternative medicine is misleading, as these treatments have not been proven to be an effective alternative to regulated conventional medicine, but alternative medicine proponents point out that the same can be said (not proven, though often demonstrated to be probable) of Western Medicine.
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- Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in the profession of medicine has been significantly restricted.
- Historically and in many parts of the world, women's participation in medicine (as physicians, for instance) has been significantly restricted, although women's informal practice of medicine in the role of caregivers and in the allied health professions has been widespread.
- The practice of medicine remains disproportionately male overall.
- Since 2003, women have formed the majority of the U.S. medical student body.
- Women have formed the majority of the United States medical student body since 2003.
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- Masks represent the collective mind of the Mendé community; viewed as one body, they are seen as the Spirit of the Mendé people.
- The most important of these personify and embody the powerful spirits belonging to the medicine societies: the goboi and gbini of the Poro society (the secret society for men), the sowei of the Sande society (the secret society for women), and the njaye and humoi maskers belonging to the eponymous medicine societies.
- The high or broad forehead represents good luck or the sharp, contemplative mind of the ideal Mendé woman.
- The holes at the base of the mask are where the rest of the costume is attached; a woman who wears these masks must not expose any part of her body, or it is believed a vengeful spirit may take possession of her.
- Because of its power, women are made to stand far back from gbini and if a woman accidentally touches it, she must be anointed with medicine immediately.
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- The humanists believed that it is important to transcend to the afterlife with a perfect mind and body, which could be attained with education.
- The educational curriculum of humanism spread throughout Europe during the sixteenth century and became the educational foundation for the schooling of European elites, the functionaries of political administration, the clergy of the various legally recognized churches, and the learned professions of law and medicine.
- Based on the Greek idea of a "sound mind," the school in Mantua offered physical education as well.