Embodied Medicine: Mens Sana in Corpore Virtuale Sano
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience March 16, 2017 Giuseppe Riva, S. Serino, Daniele Di Lernia et al.
Progress in medical science and technology drastically improved physicians’ ability to interact with patient’s physical body. Nevertheless, medicine still addresses the human body from a Hippocratic point of view, considering the organism and its processes just as a matter of mechanics and fluids. However, the interaction between the cognitive neuroscience of bodily self-consciousness (BSC),...