Introduction to the Applications of Mind Mapping in Medicine

This book is an introduction to a group of techniques known as visual mapping and its application in medicine. The best known of these techniques is mind mapping (MM). Mind mapping is a very old technique that has been neglected in many professional areas. Our intention is to offer a book full of useful information to students and professionals of medicine in the application of mind mapping to their work, which we hope will stimulate greater use of this technique. We have been using mind mapping for more than twenty years in different fields, insurance, programming, banking, medicine, GIS, data visualization and, in general, in complex information analysis. Medicine is an important field where more applications are possible.

Mind mapping can help in this type of situations. When employing digital mind
mapping (tablet or ultrabook) it is sometimes useful to create floating topics and
move them to their final position in the mind map when there is time. If there is a
lot ...