People who are holistically-minded often refer to the mind-body connection. They are suggesting that they have discovered a conduit between our mental and physical being. Many react in surprise when I ...

In the popular childhood song, “The Skeleton Dance,” we may recall singing about different body parts being connected, such as, “The backbone’s connected to the neck bone.” However, the more abstract ...

We all know how stress — or anger, or pangs of anxiety — can affect the body. Your heart rate increases; your blood pressure rises; maybe your palms feel sweaty, or your stomach feels tight. Likewise, ...

I consider myself a workaholic. But as much as I love my job, being an entrepreneur and founder of my own projects equals being in a perpetual state of hyper-control and stress. Spas, one-off ...

image: A new study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals that a connection between the body and mind is built into the structure of the brain. The study shows ...

Hospitalist and Internist Dr. Allison Moore-Kontos talks about the mind/body connection. Capital Regional Medical Center Hospitalist Dr. Allison Moore-Kontos talks about how she got into medicine and ...