THE HEALING BRAIN
A Scientific Reader
Robert Ornstein and Charles Swencionis (Eds.)
Guilford Publications, 1990
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - This course was designed to allow the reader to:
• Understand the relation of the brain, mind, and physical health in the areas of brain growth in response to experience
• Understand the social milieu in epidemiology
• Use ethnomedical analysis
• Learn placebo effects
• Learn about transactional psychophysiology
• Review the effects of air and diet on neurotransmitter levels
• Understand homeostatic mechanisms
• Understand the communication between the nervous and immune systems
• Review the relation of body weight to age and health
Robert Ornstein, Ph.D., President of the Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge, is the author of twenty books on mind, brain, and health.
Charles Swencionis, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Psychology, Epidemiology and Population Medicine, Psychiatry, and Associate Director of the Ph.D program in Clinical Health Psychology at Yeshiva University.
12 CE credits; 262 pages
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