Mind-Body Medicine: The New Science of Optimal Health

Bridge the gap between mind and body and gain a truly holistic view of your health in this science-based course that explores how your brain can impact your overall wellness.

• By This Professor
• 01: Weaving the Biopsychosocial Braid
• 02: Vital Signs-Defining Health and Illness
• 03: Fight or Flight vs. Rest and Digest
• 04: Simmering Soup-The Neuroendocrine System
• 05: Deploying the Troops-Basic Immunology
• 06: Nature vs. Nurture-Genes, Health, and Disease
• 07: Forget Me Not-Cognitive Function
• 08: Mind over Matter-Cognition in Everyday Life
• 09: Emotions Revealed-Psychology of Emotions
• 10: Agony and Ecstasy-Biology of Emotion
• 11: What's Your EQ, and How Can You Improve It?
• 12: What's Your Type? Personality and Health
• 13: An Apple a Day-Behavior and Disease Prevention
• 14: Staying on the Wagon-Making Changes That Last
• 15: Ease the Burn-Modern-Day Stress and Coping
• 16: The Iceberg-Visible and Hidden Identity
• 17: Ties That Bind-Relationships and Health
• 18: Building Bridges-Intimacy and Relationships
• 19: Touched by Grace-Spirituality and Health
• 20: A Matter of Class-Socioeconomics and Health
• 21: A Cog in the Wheel-Occupational Stress
• 22: The Power of Place-Communities and Health
• 23: The Master Plan-Public Health and Policy
• 24: Heart and Soul-Cardiovascular Disease I
• 25: Heart and Soul-Cardiovascular Disease II
• 26: The Big C-Cancer and Mind-Body Medicine
• 27: Bugs, Drugs, and Buddha-Psychoneuroimmunology
• 28: Fire in the Belly-The GI System
• 29: Obesity-America's New Epidemic
• 30: The Strain in Pain Lies Mainly in the Brain
• 31: Catching Your Zs-Sleep and Health
• 32: Chasing Zebras-Somatoform Disorders
• 33: Seeing the Glass Half Empty-Depression
• 34: Silencing the Scream-Understanding Anxiety
• 35: Lingering Wounds-Trauma, Resilience, Growth
• 36: Tomorrow's Biopsychosocial Medicine