Engel’s commitment to revolutionizing the health care sector remains important, for we are all affected as consumers, patients, practitioners, or administrators. His message is notably broad, for the scope of the holistic biopsychosocial model is virtually limitless - from psychiatry, immunology,... Read more →

Health is traditionally equated to the absence of disease. A lack of a fundamental pathology was thought to define one’s health as good, whereas biologically driven pathogens and conditions would render an individual with poor health and the label “diseased”. However, such a narrow... Read more →

A Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) just might be your family practitioner, cardiologist or even your obstetrician. Surprise! They are not all M.D.s. The increasingly growing hand of biopsychosocial medicine is pulling back the curtain on various types of medical fields. An example is osteopathic medicine.... Read more →

BRAIN BLOGGER (TONY): Hello Carol, On behalf of Brain Blogger and the GNIF, I’d like to welcome you to our forum entitled Anti-Stigmatization. Our intent is to analyze and resist the societal tendency to stigmatize neurological and psychiatric patients. Further, we’d like to focus on how... Read more →

There is a lot of buzz in the science literature about Deep Brain Stimulation, most recently a nicely written December 2005 correspondence reply article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled, “What Is Deep Brain Stimulation “Failure” and How Do We Manage Our Own... Read more →