The patient's brain: the neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship

Due to advances within neuroscience, we are now in a much better position to be able to describe and discuss the biological mechanisms that underlie the doctor-patient relationship. Using this knowlege, this book describes and demonstrates the power that the doctor's behaviour has on a patient's behaviour and capacity for recovery from illness. INDICE: 1: A brief evolutionary account of medical care; 2: Emergence and development of scientific medicine; 3: Feeling sick: A combination of bottom-up and top-down events; 4: Seeking relief: The activation of motivational and reward circuits; 5: Meeting the therapist: A look into trust, hope, empathy and compassion mechanisms; 6: Receiving the therapy: The activation of expectation and placebo mechanisms; 7: The brain of the demented patient; 8: Defence mechanisms of the body in the course of evolution: from cellular to social responses

• ISBN: 978-0-19-957951-8
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés