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<p class="photoTitle">Dr. Esther M. Sternberg</p>
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<p>It’s really hard to say “Okay, I’ve made a discovery, and I know
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I’ve helped thousands of people, or millions of people.”
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It’s when you see the one patient that really has benefited
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from that discovery that you really know that you’ve helped.
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When the family member can come up to you and say, “Thank you,
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you helped save my mother.” That really makes a difference.
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And I think that’s what motivated me from the beginning when
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I started seeing patients on a one-on-one basis, when you know
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that you’ve saved a life. And then if you make a discovery
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in the lab, in a rat, that you know can be applied
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to saving many lives — that really is tremendously rewarding.</p>
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<p>For so many thousands of years, the popular culture believed that
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stress could make you sick, that believing could make you well.
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And people believe what they feel. But scientists need evidence.
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And there really wasn’t any good, solid scientific evidence to
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prove these connections. Nor was there a good way to measure them.
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And scientists only believe what they can actually measure.
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Once scientists and physicians believed that there was a connection
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between the brain and the immune system, you could then take it to
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the next step: that maybe there is a connection between
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emotions and disease. Between negative emotions and disease,
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and positive emotions and health.</p>
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<p>And we can then say, okay, maybe these alternative approaches that
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have been used for thousands of years — approaches like meditation,
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prayer, music, sleep, dreams — all of these approaches
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that we really know in our heart of hearts really work
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to maintain health... Maybe there is a scientific basis for it.</p>
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