The Patient's Brain —— The neuroscience behind the doctor-patient relationship

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ISBN: 9780199579518 出版年：2010 页码：303 Benedetti, Fabrizio Oxford University Press

1. A brief evolutionary account of medical care 2. Emergence and development of scientific medicine 3. Feeling sick: A combination of bottom-up and top-down events 4. Seeking relief: The activation of motivational and reward circuits 5. Meeting the therapist: A look into trust, hope, empathy and compassion mechanisms 6. Receiving the therapy: The activation of expectation and placebo mechanisms 7. The brain of the demented patient 8. Defence mechanisms of the body in the course of evolution: from cellular to social responses