The Body

The mind/body issue has been debated by philosophers and psychologists for many centuries. The mind/body relationship is a problem because most of the early philosophers did not believe there was a connection between the two. The mind was not included in the early study of psychology because the mind was a separate study and seemed to have nothing to do with human behavior. In the 19th century is when researchers started making a connection between the mind and body. The brain is the connection to everything in our body, all movement flows through the brain. This connection of the mind and body is made through a nerve in the brain, the mind reacts to a stimuli and the body reproduces the behavior. The study that links the mind and the body is biopsychology and neuroscientists investigate the process.

Mind/ Body Paper

The realm of mind and consciousness is “New Psychology”, the study of the mind in a scientific form but linking the study of human behavior. The study of psychology deals with the mental process, and the mental process relates to the mind. To understand an individual one must understand the mind and the mental process. Kowalski and Westen (2005) stated “the structure of the brain sets the parameters, or limits, of human potential” (p. 84). The mind controls a person learning ability, how much information and how a person processes the information and ideas.

The mind influences a person action by receiving the information, then processing the information. The action is brought out into human behavior and physical functions. Physical functions of the body represent a concept because it is a mental picture of ideas that a person has in the mind.

The mind and consciousness relate to the physical body by a person nervous system. The three kinds of neurons in the nervous system are sensory, motor, and interneurons.

Kowalski and Westen (2005) stated:

The nervous system is comprised of three kinds of neurons: sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons. Sensory neurons (also called afferent neurons) transmit information from sensory cells in the body, called receptors (i.e., cells that receive sensory information) to the brain (either directly or by way of the spinal cord). Thus, sensory neurons might send information to the brain about the sensations perceived as a sunset or a sore throat. Motor neurons (also called efferent neurons) transmit information to the muscles and glands of the body, most often through the spinal cord. Motor neurons carry out both voluntary actions, such as grabbing a glass