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It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness

3 April 2019

Doctors have started making sense of a group of mystery conditions where people experience symptoms, but medical tests suggest nothing is physically wrong

The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind

3 April 2019

A group of troubling disorders lead to very real symptoms, but tests suggest nothing is wrong. Finding out why is shedding new light on the nature of consciousness itself

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It’s time to change our approach to 'psychosomatic' illness

The illnesses caused by a disconnect between brain and mind

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