Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Their Application in Medicine

Introduction

Since the end of the 70s a number of researchers in the area of psychology were members of a generation of pioneers who gave new views regarding the mind, behavior and intelligence as measurable and quantifiable elements, but also how these elements were not alone or isolated, it was rather the rediscovery of how these diverse properties are intertwined in a harmonious way; as time passed, names like: Howard Gardner, Daniel Goleman, Daniel Siegel, Tony Buzan, Christina Maslasch and more recent Rafael Yuste, to mention a few, were contributing to this change, these researchers and their contributions that seem distant are that they aim to a greater understanding of the human mind and its functioning. During the pre and postgraduate medicine studies together with the clinical exercise, for different reasons: hourly load, number of hours of work and study, there tends to be isolation from other scientific branches and we lose the ability to exchange information that can help us understand our patients and even ourselves.

Development

The mind field of study and treatment of psychiatry together with psychology; the neurons and their functioning are fields of neurology, internal medicine and neurosurgery, but; what specialty studies human behavior when it is subject to specific changes and these affect the brain architecture? How can we explain outbursts of anger from the amygdala? It seems that the neurosciences interdisciplinary field takes the helm in this search. The mind has always been the subject of debate and often we take the brain as its seat, but in the current scientific moments such as: Rafael Yuste is conducting brain mapping studies, where the functions that we have long attributed are based to our mind; This forces us to question ourselves as to whether everything we think we know about the brain and how it works is totally true, as with this concept that of intelligence is another one of those discussed. Daniel Goleman [1] in his first books argued that the perception of a single intelligence is being modified. These concepts deserved a major study and one of the iconic scientists in his evaluation was Howard Gardner who was one of the postulants of the theory of multiple intelligences. These theories as concepts have already been put into practice in various regions of the world and have ceased to be only a subject of study and are being part of realities such as the Zero project at Harvard or countries like Singapore [2] where ways of developing these capacities contained in multiple intelligences as part of their basic and secondary education, but what about medicine? Is it impossible to bring these advances to the field of medical training? The medical profession has a great burden of archetype as Jung would say: "a task with profound emotional implications"[3, 4, 5]. The objective of this article is to show that knowledge is intertwined and is not isolated. What is intelligence? Traditionally, a common intelligence concept has been the ability of an individual to solve problems that arise in their environment. For several decades a test was used which evaluated the linguistic and mathematical capacities as a tool to try to quantify them, but what happened to those people who were not in the acceptable levels in both? Should they be removed? How to know if we could determine its useful value to society? Gardner who decided to propose explanations to questions that many had, was in the year 1983 when in his book Frames of Mind promotes a discussion of the concept of intelligences that to this day give a broad view of this topic. This author describes as intelligences that necessary ability to solve problems or to elaborate products that are of importance in a cultural context or in a determined community, together with the existence of 8 types of intelligences and these would be:

Conclusion

Dear reader I am aware of the limitations of this article, it is also my desire to damage the techniques of the scientific method only to expand the understanding of a subject which is exciting and should not be limited to the psychological area as multiple intelligences. The neurosciences an interdisciplinary field that today brings us together many scientists who on other days would not even think about sitting together at the same table, being able to meet and expand our horizons is a need that we all share, in this case medicine and the formation of new generations How can they benefit from these concepts and theories? , is the discussion we want to promote.

When writing this article from personal experience I am aware that there may be inclination to an area but I leave this message dear reader, do not limit yourself to these words search, compare and expand these theories that the point of union of all scientists continue to grow and evolving.