![]() ![]() ![]() “We speculate that the relationship between physical and mental is likely bidirectional and complex,” she says. This is important because new research from the University of Melbourne suggests that an unhealthy body may be a better indicator of mental illness than the structure of the brain.įor the study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, researchers wanted to understand the links between poor body health and psychiatric illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and generalised anxiety disorder.Īfter looking at 85,748 adults with these disorders and 87,420 healthy control individuals, they found, as lead author Dr Ye Ella Tian says, “that poor body health is a more profound manifestation of mental illness compared to changes in the brain”. He explains that our brains are made up of different networks that communicate electrochemically to influence the function of all our bodily systems. The brain keeps the score our health is the score.” “Despite its popularity, Bessel van der Kolk’s book, The Body Keeps the Score, is wrong,” says Dr Peter Baldwin, head of clinical research at the Black Dog Institute. ![]()
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