Brain-body health please: new research supports integrated physical and mental health care

The French philosopher René Descartes is often credited with discovering the mind-body problem; a dogma with long-standing implications on psychiatry. Descartes introduced notions that the mind and body are separate entities, albeit later acknowledging that there may indeed be a link via the brain (specifically, the pineal gland). Resultantly, modern psychiatry largely neglected influences of the peripheral body on mental health, with biological psychiatric research often taking a more brain-centric role.

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