The concept of embodied cognition, an ethological approach about evolutionary dynamics behind body components participation to create, maintain and adapt one organism’s thought, is also a key concept to bring interdisciplinarity to a more physiological discussion about cognition. In this webinar, we expose embodied cognition main ideas, altogether with Tinbergen’s four questions, an important ethological theoretical guideline to achieve a more complex and integrated knowledge and research about animal behavior and cognition. By then, we can discuss embodied cognition's role to reposition central nervous system heuristic value in the understanding of what creates and supports cognition. This enables some evaluations about mental health interventions and policies, taking Brazil's public healthcare system (SUS - Sistema Único de Saúde) as a brief case study.