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Stanford scholars encourage more healthcare professionals to place emphasis on the importance of people’s mindsets and social context in healing.
Alia Crum and colleagues argue that acting on the growing evidence about the influence of patient mindset and social context on response to healthcare can improve outcomes.
How our minds push our bodies to defy expectations, beliefs, and even our own biology—in short, to make miracles
A recent MBL study demonstrates that what a bystander says shapes not only what we think about a product, but also how our bodies respond to it. Healthcare providers and patients may use this finding to enhance the effectiveness of medical treatments, suggest the authors of the study, which was...
Dr. Crum received a 2016 NIH New Innovator Award for her proposed project, "Harnessing Mindset in 21st Century Healthcare." Dr. Crum is one of the only psychologists to ever have received this award, which focuses on high-impact biomedical research.
