The Influence of the Brain on Disease and Healing: Neuroresearchers’ Insights

2023-06-16 12:11:25

Sebastian König for NZZ am Sonntag

Our brain influences diseases and their healing. Neuroresearchers are using sophisticated measurement methods to uncover how this happens and how it influences the immune system.

When Asya Rolls and Hedva Haykin analyze the scar tissue of a heart attack with their microscope, they are actually concerned with something completely different: the power of emotions over health and illness. The two researchers from Haifa are concerned with a question that is as astonishing as it is far-reaching: could the neuronal networks in the brain that are involved in positive feelings be better at healing heart attacks?

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