People always say that when facing the disease, we should actively cooperate with the treatment, and people with a good mind also get well faster. But this kind of talk has been lack of scientific evidence, in the eyes of many people is just a cliché. Recently, Japanese scientists have finally proved that psychokinesis can indeed help patients overcome their illness. Spinal cord injuries and strokes are devastating diseases that cause patients to suddenly lose their ability to live independently (impaired speech, hand and motor skills). Helping these patients to regain their physical functions has been an important topic in the field of medicine and research. From a clinical point of view, psychodynamics seem to help these patients recover their motor functions, while depressive symptoms slow down the recovery of their functions. So, how exactly does psychodynamics affect patients? Yukio Nishimura, an associate professor at NIPS in Japan, led a team of researchers to study this in depth. They found that the voxel nucleus, which controls psychokinesis in the brain, activates the motor cortex and promotes the recovery of motor functions in the early stages of spinal cord injury recovery. The findings are published in the October 2 issue of Science. The nucleus accumbens is an important region of the brain associated with reward, emotion, motivation and addiction, while the motor cortex is the higher center that governs human movement. The researchers established a monkey model with spinal cord injury and thus analyzed the relationship between the neural activity of the nucleus accumbens and the neural activity of the motor cortex. They temporarily blocked the activity of the nucleus accumbens in the monkeys one month after spinal cord injury. The study showed that the motor cortex activity was inhibited in these monkeys and the recovery of finger dexterity was significantly affected. In contrast, the control monkeys did not show this hand motor deficit during the recovery phase. This study suggests that the vomeronasal nucleus can play a role in hand control function during the early rehabilitation phase in monkeys, and that stimulation of vomeronasal nucleus activity can facilitate the recovery of this motor function. “Our work illustrates the importance of motivating patients in the early stages of brain injury, including spinal cord injury, for the recovery of their motor function. It makes sense to provide psychological support to these patients.”