Why do we feel the way we feel? How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from each other or do they function together as part of an interconnected system? In MOLECULES OF EMOTION, neuroscientist Candace Pert provides startling and decisive answers to these long-debated questions, establishing the biomolecular basis for our emotions and explaining these new scientific developments in a clear and accessible way. Her pioneering research on how the chemicals inside us form a dynamic information network, linking mind and body, is not only provocative, it is revolutionary. In her groundbreaking book, Candace Pert offers a new scientific understanding of the power of our minds and our feelings to affect our health and well-being.
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Candace B Pert, PH.D., is Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Centre in Washington DC where she also conducts AIDS research.
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Candace B. Pert, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where she also conducts AIDS research. She was featured in Bill Moyers's book and PBS series Healing and the Mind, and lectures extensively throughout the country.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book, a little slow at times,
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Candace Pert is amazing, a great and courageous scientist. Her book shows how emotions and cells work together. She presents all the scientific evidence, which can be a bit hard to comprehend. If you need hard, scientific evidence for understanding body-mind-spirit connection, Pert and Bruce Lipton are a great combo.
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Final punch for Descartes...,
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Back in my Med School years, I remember having outraged my colleagues by stating, with that peculiarly annoying self-righteousness of early twenties, that "all diseases are psychossomatic!". At the time, this idea came as an unstoppable intuition, with absolutely no rational or scientific argument to back it up. But now, many years later, I come to read the scientific data to support this idea - "Molecules of Emotion" should be mandatory read for every student in healthcare professions (physicians, nurses, pharmacists) and strongly recommended reading for everyone else. Specially pertinent for those who, despite all evidence, still thing like Descartes and regard thinking and emotions as merely abstract fruitless entities, with no practical consequence in so-called "reality"...Candace Pert is a brilliant scientist and an even better human being and manages to get together an amazing book, that is equally accessible for lay public and science/health public, while at the same time being funny and entertaining, despite the deepness and wonderful complexity of most subjects she writes on. Medicine will only be truly healing (for patients and doctors...) when it acknowledges the "New Science"/psychoneuroimmunology scientific evidence, integrates it into medical training and uses it for a paradigm shift in clinical practice...
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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excellent eye opening for all medical professionals,
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i really enjoyed reading this book along with my pathophys class as it all ties in and reinforces what we are learning and then takes it to the next dimension,
it is applicable and makes sense, academic and personal at the same time.
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