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The link between health and emotions
http://www.physorg.com/news205749589.html
October 8, 2010
While the connection between our environment and our emotions has been
well explored what is less understood is the profound connection
between our emotions and our physical health.
Internationally recognised mind-body-stress-wellness expert Professor
Esther Sternberg will join the University of Sydney's Professor Ian
Hickie next week for a special discussion on the science connecting
our emotions and health.
Emotions, the Brain and the Body: the science connecting health and
the emotions is part of the Sydney Ideas Open series of talks and
forums and will be held Thursday 14 October.
Professor Sternberg, Chief of Neuroendocrine Immunology and Behavior
at the US National Institute of Health, is widely recognised for her
discoveries in the mind-body interaction in illness and healing, as
well as her ability to translate her complex scientific subjects for
lay-audiences.
As well as featuring prominently in US print and broadcast media, she
is recognised as one of 100 women to have changed the face of medicine
by the National Library of Medicine, has testified before US Congress,
and has acted as an adviser to the World Health Organization.
She will explain how nerves, molecules and hormones connect the brain
with the immune system and how as a result, the brain can signal the
immune system and make us more vulnerable to illness, while the immune
system can also signal the brain and affect our emotions.
Professor Sternberg will discuss the implications this may have for
the treatment of both chronic and treatable diseases.
Professor Hickie, Executive Director of the Brain and Mind Research
Institute (BMRI) will explain that over the past three decades a whole
range of psychological and medical research has demonstrated the
extent to which the brain regulates the body's key functions to ensure
physical wellness.
"A much greater focus in the last decade has been: can you improve
brain function to improve physical health and reduce your risk of
developing other illnesses?" he says.
Both Professor Hickie and Professor Sternberg will discuss studies
conducted by the BMRI which demonstrate the role played by emotions in
the developing adolescent brain.
"Our focus is particularly on the last major phase of brain
development," he explains. "That's the time of onset of most major
adult health problems, like anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and
psychosis, which are associated with a risk of physical disorders such
as diabetes and disruption of the circadian, metabolic and immune
systems."
Provided by University of Sydney
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