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“The mind is a function of the brain and is created from biology.”

Mind Science Brain Consciousness Awareness Perception Memory Biology Psychosomatic Functional Neurological Disorder

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“Biological correlates are often used to give credence to the experience of psychosomatic disorders. An objective change on a blood test or scan allows others to believe in the suffering.”

Suffering Evidence Psychosomatic Functional Neurological Illness

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“The brain is a cultured organ. It depends on exposure to learn. Only a small part of learning is conscious.”

Brain Learning

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“At birth, the brain is a blank canvas that is full of possibility. A newborn has more brain cells than an adult.”

Science Brain Possibility Birth Babies Blank Canvas

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“Illness is a socially patterned behaviour, far more than people realize. How a person interprets and reacts to bodily changes depends... Personal and societal role modes create expectations of health... Our brains are wired through experience to respond in a certain way to certain provocation.”

Science Society Health Expectations Illness Response To Stimuli

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“The children translate for the parents ... They are their parents' conduit to the new world.”

Family Migration Asylum Seekers

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“The [asylum-seeking] children are embodying a sociocultural phenomenon. Their story has been written across nations, in a combination that has made them unique. It has been impacted by poor social circumstances, poor nutrition, epigenetics, abusers, authority figures, politicians, parents, doctors and the media.”

Children Political Circumstances Asylum Seekers Stereotyped Prejudices

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“Functional neurological and psychosomatic disorders are often a manifestation of a maladaptive response to the mistakes made by the human system of perception.”

Science Response Human Perception Psychosomatic Disorders

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“That's how modern medicine works: disease impresses people; illness with no evidence of the disease does not. Psychological illness, psychosomatic and functional symptoms are the least respected of medical problems.”

Disease Evidence Responsiveness Modern Medicine Psychosomatic Psychological Illness Functional Symptoms

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“If you can't say what is happening in the brain, nobody will care.”

Brain Medical Diagnosis Modern Medicine

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“Every medical problem is a combination of the biological, the psychological and the social. It is only the weighting of each that changes.”

Science Disease Illness Medical Model Biopsychosocial Medicine Medical Problem

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“... alternating between anticipation and despondency. That has physical consequences.”

Anticipation Despondency Psychosomatic Functional Neurological Disorder Resignation Syndrome

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“... [resignation syndrome was] like being in a dream that she didn't want to wake up from.”

Dream Apathy Psychosomatic Functional Neurological Illness Psychological Illness Resignation Syndrome

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