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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

Book:The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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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

Book:The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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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

Book:The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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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

Book:The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

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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

Book:The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness

Source: The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness