Mind matters: etchings of a mental life.(More about ... Mind-body medicine)

From: CME: Your SA Journal of CPD | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

In 1994 Nobel prize winner Francis Crick presented what he described as an astonishing hypothesis: 'You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will are, in fact, nothing more than the behaviour of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules.' (1) But Crick's account of the mind-body relationship was less than astonishing, given that it was proposed in a scientific community largely dominated by reductionist thinking. What is astonishing is the growing body of neuroscientific evidence that has ...

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