Psychoneuroimmunology and Natural Healing by the Brain :: Biology Essays Research Papers

Psychoneuroimmunology and Natural Healing by the Brain After having studied the placebo issue for our cash in ones chips paper, I was greatly intrigued by its importance in understanding health and implications for the connection of mind and body. As I acknowledged in my previous paper, the placebo effect is often documented in a scientific study, yet is considered to be something not completely understood and therefore deemed unreliable by the medical community. However, what I found from my research was that there does seem to be an inherent reliability and could thus be a cornerstone for the concept for mind-body healing.As most of us have experienced in our lives, especially in college, when we are most stressed out we all of a sudden seem to get dismal easier and react to pain in more(prenominal) extreme ways. In this case, our psychological state seems to have much control over the functioning of our bodies (and immune system). For another(prenominal) example, consider the case of Mr. Wright as reported by Dr. Bruno Klopfer Mr. Wright had a generalized far advanced malignancy involving the lymph nodes, lymphosarcoma. The patient had tried every available contrive of medicine and his condition had hopelessly deteriorated to the point where he was bedridden and gasping for air. The doctors agreed that he had only a few days to live. Then the man perceive about an experimental drug called Krebiozen, which was in the process of being tested. He insisted on being included in the experimental trials. His doctors, feeling he had nada to lose and would soon be dead anyway, out of compassion greed to give him the experimental drug. To their amazement, the mans tumors soon began to shrink dramatically and he was discharged from the hospital. twain months later, the man read news accounts of the research on Krebiozen that reported serious doubts with the drug. Within a matter of days, the mans tumors had returned and were again threatening his life. His doct or cleverly positive(p) him that a new and more potent shipment had been received and proceeded to give him injections of plain water. His tumors once again began to shrink dramatically. He remained healthy for seven more months until another news report declared Nationwide AMA Tests Show Krebiozen to Be Worthless as a Cancer Treatment. The man died within two days (4). i can see that the connection between the nervous system and the immune system is quite important, especially in the way that attitudes and emotions are processed by and can at the same time affect physiological or biochemical change.