The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy

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David Sobel

Description: Joining the reaction against Cartesian separation of mind and body and belief in "magic bullets," Ornstein (The Amazing Brain, etc.), Stanford University professor of neurobiology, and Sobel, director of protective medicine at Kaiser-Permanente Health System, contend that the brain's primary function is not to think but to maintain and restore health to the body. The brain also activates the body's own immune system and alleviates pain using hypnosis or morphine-like analgesics. Medical intervention, they claim, is less vital to disease prevention than are nutrition, hygiene, environment, behavior and social stability. ... (more)

Manufacturer: Malor Books
Release date: 1 February 1999
ISBN-10 : 1883536170 | ISBN-13: 9781883536176

Tags: Energy (1), Spirit (1), Mind (1), Cell Memory (1), Health/Wellness (1)

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