scholarly journals Understanding Mind-Body Interaction from the Perspective of East Asian Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye-Seul Lee ◽  
Yeonhee Ryu ◽  
Won-Mo Jung ◽  
Jungjoo Kim ◽  
Taehyung Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Body ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Document Frequency ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Objective. Attempts to understand the emotion have evolved from the perspective of an independent cognitive system of the mind to that of an interactive response involving the body. This study aimed to quantify and visualize relationships between different emotions and bodily organ systems from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Methods. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) method was used to quantify the significance of Five Viscera and the gallbladder relative to seven different emotions through the classical medical text of DongUiBoGam. Bodily organs that corresponded to different emotions were visualized using a body template. Results. The emotions had superior tf-idf values with the following bodily organs: anger with the liver, happiness with the heart, thoughtfulness with the heart and spleen, sadness with the heart and lungs, fear with the kidneys and the heart, surprise with the heart and the gallbladder, and anxiety with the heart and the lungs. Specific patterns between the emotions and corresponding bodily organ systems were identified. Conclusion. The present findings will further the current understanding of the relationship between the mind and body from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Western medicine characterizes emotional disorders using “neural” language while East Asian medicine uses “somatic” language.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Mind-Body Dualism and Personal Values

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Gunne Grankvist ◽  
Petri Kajonius ◽  
Bjorn Persson
Keyword(s):  
Personal Values ◽  
Mental States ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Beliefs And Values ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

<p>Dualists view the mind and the body as two fundamental different “things”, equally real and independent of each other. Cartesian thought, or substance dualism, maintains that the mind and body are two different substances, the non-physical and the physical, and a causal relationship is assumed to exist between them. Physicalism, on the other hand, is the idea that everything that exists is either physical or totally dependent of and determined by physical items. Hence, all mental states are fundamentally physical states. In the current study we investigated to what degree Swedish university students’ beliefs in mind-body dualism is explained by the importance they attach to personal values. A self-report inventory was used to measure their beliefs and values. Students who held stronger dualistic beliefs attach less importance to the power value (i.e., the effort to achieve social status, prestige, and control or dominance over people and resources). This finding shows that the strength in laypeople’s beliefs in dualism is partially explained by the importance they attach to personal values.</p>

scholarly journals Comparing scientific worldviews between allopathic medical degree and East Asian medicine degree students utilizing the thinking about science survey instrument (TSSI)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saikaew Dudla ◽  
Patrick D. Herron ◽  
Paul R. Marantz ◽  
Felise B. Milan ◽  
Corbin Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
College Students ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Medical Degree ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Integrative Therapies ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Background Integrative medicine has become a new healthcare model due to the growing evidence base for complementary and integrative therapies. However, some question whether complementary and integrative therapies can truly be integrated with biomedicine due to differences in underlying paradigms and theoretical bases. This study aimed to explore differences in scientific worldviews between students studying East Asian medicine and those completing an allopathic medical degree using the validated Thinking about Science Survey Instrument (TSSI). Methods 122 medical students from Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Einstein) and 48 East Asian medicine students from the Pacific College of Health and Science (Pacific College) participated in this study. Participants completed the TSSI, a 60-item Likert-scale instrument that quantitatively measures the sociocultural resistance to, and support for science. Item and category means were compared between each group using an independent sample t-test. Results Distinct differences were seen between the two groups of students with regard to age, gender distribution and prior education. Einstein students were generally supportive of science and Pacific College students were generally supportive of/positively neutral to science. Einstein students more strongly affirmed the relationship of science in relation to the categories of Epistemology, Public Health, Emotion and Aesthetics, the Economy, and Public Policy. Pacific College students more strongly affirmed the relationship between science and the category Race and Gender. There were no differences in the categories of Environment and Resource, Science for All, and Religion and Morality. Conclusion This study suggests that there are differences underlying the scientific worldviews of Einstein and Pacific College students, particularly with regard to Epistemology and Public Health. Such differences may be related to the different theoretical knowledge bases and ways of viewing health within the two disciplines. Despite demographic and educational differences between the two groups their overall scientific worldviews were similar with neither group expressing disparate views. This suggests that both groups may be receptive to the value of other paradigms. Providing courses that focus on different therapeutic approaches and paradigms during medical training may foster interprofessional understanding and collaborative practice between health professionals of different medical disciplines.

SENAM OTAK BERBASIS GERAK TRADISI KOORDINASI ASIMETRIS BAGI ANAK BERKEBUTUHAN KHUSUS

Sarwahita ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (01) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Dinny Devi Triana ◽  
Eddy Husni
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Body Movement ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Needs Children ◽  
Balance Exercise ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

ABSTRACT: Brain gymnastic is a collection of simple movements that aim to connect or unite the mind and body through kinesiology educational process. Kinesiology is a science that studies body movement and the relationship between muscle and posture to brain function. The motion of the limbs that is emphasized in brain gymnastics is a cross movement. The movement moves the extremes on one side of the body intersecting the midline and coordinates with the extremes on the other side of the body so that both hemispheres are used at the same time. Gymnastics of the brain in special needs children (simple children needs) as a child slow or slow (retarded) that will never succeed in school as children in general. Thus the basis of the need for bridal gymnastics is devoted to special needs of children who have been learning difficulties or concentrating disorders, and do not have a good focus on observing everything, so there needs to be a drill or balance exercise of coordination and asymmetric movements or crosses to optimize focus and his concentration.   ABSTRAK: Senam otak merupakan kumpulan gerakan-gerakan sederhana yang bertujuan menghubungkan atau menyatukan akal dan tubuh melalui proses edukasi kinesiologi. Kinesiologi merupakan suatu ilmu yang mempelajari gerakan tubuh dan hubungan antara otot dan postur terhadap fungsi otak. Gerak anggota tubuh yang ditekankan pada senam otak adalah gerakan menyilang. Gerakan tersebut menggerakkan ekstremitas pada satu sisi tubuh menyilang garis tengah dan berkoordinasi dengan ekstremitas pada sisi tubuh yang lain sehingga kedua hemisfer dipergunakan pada saat yang bersamaan. Senam otak pada anak kebutuhan khusus (special needs children) secara simple sebagai anak yang lambat (slow) atau mengalami gangguan (retarded) yang tidak akan pernah berhasil di sekolah sebagaimana anak-anak pada umumnya. Dengan demikian dasar kebutuhan adanya senam otak dikhususkan pada anak kebutuhan khusus yang mengalami kesulitan belajar atau gangguan berkonsentrasi, dan tidak memiliki fokus yang baik dalam mengamati segala hal, sehingga perlu adanya drill atau latihan keseimbangan gerak-gerak koordinasi dan asimetris atau menyilang untuk mengoptimalkan fokus dan konsentrasinya.

scholarly journals The Association of Quantitative Facial Color Features with Cold Pattern in Traditional East Asian Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujeong Mun ◽  
Ilkoo Ahn ◽  
Siwoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cold Sensation ◽  
Color Parameter ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Color Features ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Calculation System

Introduction. Facial diagnosis is a major component of the diagnostic method in traditional East Asian medicine. We investigated the association of quantitative facial color features with cold pattern using a fully automated facial color parameterization system. Methods. The facial color parameters of 64 participants were obtained from digital photographs using an automatic color correction and color parameter calculation system. Cold pattern severity was evaluated using a questionnaire. Results. The a⁎ values of the whole face, lower cheek, and chin were negatively associated with cold pattern score (CPS) (whole face: B=-1.048, P=0.021; lower cheek: B=-0.494, P=0.007; chin: B=-0.640, P=0.031), while b⁎ value of the lower cheek was positively associated with CPS (B=0.234, P=0.019). The a⁎ values of the whole face were significantly correlated with specific cold pattern symptoms including cold abdomen (partial ρ=-0.354, P<0.01) and cold sensation in the body (partial ρ=-0.255, P<0.05). Conclusions. a⁎ values of the whole face were negatively associated with CPS, indicating that individuals with increased levels of cold pattern had paler faces. These findings suggest that objective facial diagnosis has utility for pattern identification.

Yi Chema and the Psychosocial Body in Late Nineteenth Century Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-92
Author(s):  
Kiebok Yi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Conventional understandings of Chinese medicine, and by extension East Asian medicine, are that historical and contemporary discourses on the medical body have essentially revolved around a unitary body perception—the cosmological body as demonstrated by the use of concepts such as qi, yinyang, and the Five Phases. Notably, in this body conception, the material, spiritual and emotional dimensions are not separable from each other but are rather interconnected by means of allpervasive qi that resonates in the universe. However, East Asian medicine has in fact provided a far more diverse and dynamic landscape of conceptualizations of the body than has previously been assumed. Addressing this relatively ignored topography, this paper investigates medical thought about body structure that was proposed and practiced by Yi Chema 李濟馬 (1837-1900), a physician and Confucian in late nineteenth century Chosŏn 朝鮮 Korea. Rather than considering cosmological factors, he brought into play human affairs and agency in his discussion of the medical body. In the framework of his medical system, later referred to as Sasang 四象 (fourfold imaging) medicine, psychosocial characteristics—such as affective temperaments, cognitive traits, and behavioral dispositions—are inherently interwoven with the configuration of the viscera and body parts. Importantly, the physiological processes of this psychosocial body are not so much maintained by cosmologically resonating qi flowing throughout the body, but rather, they are activated by the human agent’s psychosocial drive to engage with the world. Yi Chema, through his conceptualization of the psychosocial body, envisaged an ideal world in which the qualities and differences of people should be acknowledged to the fullest extent. Thus he rejected hierarchical socio-cultural orderings of human beings in favor of a respect of heterogeneity. Yi Chema’s effort to promote the psychosocial body can be understood against the backdrop of late nineteenth century East Asia, where the mechanistic body of what was then seen as modern medicine was encroaching upon the cosmological body.

Spirit and Body in the World of Modern Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Zoran Avramović
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The World ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The One ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Spirit and body of the man living in the world of modern technology are discussed in the paper. The entire life of modern man is under the pressure of rapid and far‐reaching changes in economy, organisation, education, self‐image. The relations between the spirit and the body on the one side and illness and health, money, media, narcissism, morality and national identity on the other side are studied in the article. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the world of modern science and technology and the quality of life focusing on the mind and body. The fact emphazised in the conclusion is that the nature of Western ‐ European civilization has been changing with predominant turning to the SELF, to the absolute interest of an invidual in terms of materialism. The result of this civilizational turn is jeopardizing the spirit and the body of modern man.

scholarly journals The association between the use of biomedical services and the holistic use of traditional East Asian medicine: a national survey of outpatients in South Korea

BMJ Open ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e018414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae-Mahn Shim ◽  
Yun-Suk Lee
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
National Survey ◽  
East Asian ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Ordered Logistic Regression ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Representative National Sample ◽  
The Relationship

ObjectivesThe holistic use of a system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is potentially linked to its treatment outcomes. This paper examines how the use of biomedicine is associated with the holistic use of CAM, focusing on traditional East Asian medicine (EM) that is uniquely integrated in the medical system in South Korea.Design/SettingsA representative national sample of EM outpatients in South Korea.Participants3861 survey respondents.MethodsBy using the 2011 Korean National Survey of EM patients, ordered logistic regression models specify the relationship between EM outpatients’ use of biomedicine and their holistic use of EM modalities.ResultsAmong EM outpatients who used at least one EM modality in the past 3 months, people who used two (33.3%) or three (29.4%) modalities together are the two highest proportions, followed by users of four (18.1%), five (7.2%), six (2.1%) and seven (0.6%) modalities. The odds for EM users to use EM holistically are 17% greater among EM users who used biomedicine as well, compared with EM users who did not use biomedicine.ConclusionsThe healthcare community should recognise that CAM use likely becomes holistic as people use biomedicine concomitantly, when the practice rights over a CAM system are comprehensively and exclusively entitled to a group of CAM professionals who are independent from practitioners of biomedicine.

scholarly journals Historical epistemology of the body-mind interaction in psychiatry

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-13
Keyword(s):  
Body Problem ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain

This paper deals with the history of the relationship between the mind-body dualism and the epistemology of madness. Earlier versions of such dualism posed little problem in regard to the manner of their communication. The Cartesian view that mind and body did, in fact, name different substances introduced a problem of incommunicability that is yet to be resolved. Earlier views that madness may be related to changes in the brain began gaining empirical support during the 17th century. Writers on madness chose to resolve the mind-body problem differently Some stated that such communication was not needed; others, that mind was a redundant concept, as madness could be fully explained by structural changes in the brain; and yet others described psychological spaces for madness to inhabit as a symbolic conflict. The epistemology of the neurosciences bypasses the conundrum, as it processes all together the variables representing the brain, subjectivity, and behavior and bridges the “philosophical” gap by means of correlational structures.

Philosophy and neuropsychiatry

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Norman A. Poole ◽  
Derek Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intentional Stance ◽  
Blood Tests ◽  
Clinical Scenarios ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Physical Level ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explores the distinction between the mind and the body through the lens of empiricism in neuropsychiatry. The argument is made that, although much of our understanding of the relationship between the functioning mind and its abnormalities comes from rationalization, neuropsychiatric practices cannot be based entirely in a materialist idea of the mind and body as identical. Although the tests a neuropsychiatrist performs, such as neuroimaging, blood tests, and neuropsychology, appear more objective, the relation between their results and mental disorders is not empirically clear. By citing Daniel Dennet’s intentional stance theory, the perception that psychopathological phenomena are meaningless is questioned. Dennet’s stances are applied to clinical scenarios in order to demonstrate that while physical-level investigations may be conceptually incompatible with those on the intentional level, there is often no way to cleanly separate the two, and both must be considered in the line of a neuropsychiatrist’s work.

Mind and brain: building bridges linking neurology, psychiatry, and psychology

2010 ◽  
pp. 4746-4748
Author(s):  
A. Zeman
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Disorders ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contrast Study ◽  
Medical Disorders ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Mind And Brain ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Ambiguous Position

‘The great regions of the mind correspond to the great regions of the brain.’ Paul Broca ‘… the master unsolved problem of biology: how the hundred million nerve cells of the brain work together to create consciousness …’ E.O. Wilson, Consilience, 1998 Here is one view of the relationship between medicine and psychiatry. Physicians study, diagnose, and treat disorders of the body; psychiatrists (by contrast) study, diagnose, and treat disorders of the mind. Medicine has to do mainly with processes in objects, such as the circulation of blood to the kidneys; psychiatrists concern themselves mainly with the experiences of subjects, such as auditory hallucinations. Medical disorders are ‘organic’; psychiatric disorders are ‘functional’. Medicine is mainly a science; psychiatry mainly an art. The brain, on this view, occupies an ambiguous position, poised between body and mind: it is an ambiguous intermediary, a skilful interpreter between the languages of mind and body. Nevertheless, disorders of body and mind can and should be rigorously distinguished....

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