Candace Pert, PhD: Recent Episodes
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What does resilience these days look like? Is it head down, into the storm?, stiff upper lip, tough skin to resist the abrasion?, resolve, determination?, what other approaches might help? Candace Pert concluded from her research that you can’t talk about the body as a physical entity separate from mind and emotions, but rather as […]
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Several have asked for an update with respect to the film project, which I would greatly like to see come to fruition. I saw three main themes, Candace’s role launching psychopharmacology with the discovery of the opioid receptor as a graduate student (generated a Lasker prize for her boss), her foundational vision of what she […]
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This article has been adapted from a talk delivered by Dr. Candace Pert at “Survival and Consciousness”, a symposium sponsored by the Institute for Noetic Sciences, in Washington DC, October 26-27, 1985. It was published in Advances Vol. 8, No. 8 Summer, 1988, p8-16 . Click to download PDF. What connects emotion to physiology? How […]
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Much like Candace Pert & Friedrich Nietzsche, Antonio Damasio believes that what the body feels is every bit as significant as what the mind thinks, and that both functions are inextricably intertwined. This is according to John Banville, in his review of Antonio Damasio’s new book “The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making […]
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Synopsis Only 30 years ago, the concept of an integrated mind-body system was non-existent in Western medicine. But in the 1970s and 80s, the brilliant and bold scientific research of visionary Dr. Candace Pert (1946-2013) forever shattered the notion that the brain reigns supreme as the seat of intelligence, thought, memory and emotion. Her groundbreaking […]
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The following article is adapted from an article written by Dr. Pert on Oct 2, 2004 Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther Music, one might say, is the sound […]
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Acupuncture is a therapy based on the idea that disease is caused by blockages in the body, and that stimulation of these areas through the use of needles facilitates healing. These ideas go back thousands of years in traditional Chinese medicine. The therapy continues to be very popular and is most used for pain relief. […]
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The Healing Field is a 2016 Telly Award winning documentary film by Penny Price Lavin that has aired on PBS. In this film, Dr. Pert explains how our thoughts, experiences, beliefs, expectations and emotions shape and filter our perceptions and outward (as well as inward) realities. These principles underlie the power of mindfullness meditations, positive […]
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The following paper was published in The Journal of Immunology : Vol. 135. No. 2. August 1985. (Click here to view in PDF format.) Neuropeptides and their Receptors: A Pyschosomatic Network Candace B. Pert, Michael R. Ruff, Richard J. Weber and Miles Herkenham From the *Section on Brain Biochemistry, Clinical Neuroscience Branch. National Institute of […]
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We have begun filming a documentary film on the life and contributions of Dr Candace Pert to the field of Mind-Body medicine and will post updates here and on her Facebook page. Additional information on the film is posted here. The film is a project of The Institute for New Medicine (TINM), the non-profit she […]
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