Are we all the same? The critical role of translational brain, behavior, and immunity research in East Asia

Abstract

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is founded on the idea that the "Mind and Body" are all interconnected. When you have a difficult time or disturbing lifestyle and experience a series of somatic and psychological symptoms mimicking inflammation-induced sickness behaviors, the TCM practitioners would be very likely to give you a diagnosis of "On Fire" and prescribe specific food intervention and herbal medicine, which might be considered anti-inflammatory to "cool you down." Psychoneuroimmunology has been long stemmed in ancient medicine.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI); Ethnical difference; Mind-Body Interface; Precision medicine; Psychiatric heterogeneity; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).