Mind-Body Medicine

Question 1

Traditional Biomedical Model

Answer 1

current science has a physical basis
- disease is a physical condition, exists apart from host –> social organization or thoughts of sick person have no effect
NOT TRUE

Question 2

Truly behavioral medicine

Answer 2

behavior including thoughts, feelings, and lifestyle occupy same conceptual space as physical bodies
- mind-brain and body influence each other
- adopting behavioral medicine approach should expand out options of therapeutic interventions
Mind/Brain Body

Question 3

Biobehavioral Model

Answer 3

incorporates biomedical model but considers behaviors, learning, and sociocultural environment
- sets the stage for understanding how behavior may play role in process of disease

Question 4

Placebo Effect

Answer 4

patient takes a preparation that has no known biological activity, and yet responds and improves

• not known why -> unexplained
• similarly same results with conditioned stimulus

Question 5

Implication of all of this

Answer 5

Expanded definition of disease
- disorder of body functions or systems arising from malfunction at level of physiological, psychophysiological, or sociocultural functioning