Purpose This study seeks an inexpensive, non-invasive, and easily reproducible measure of autonomic activity, which could greatly advance mind-body research and treatment. Specific aims of this study were to: explore the utility of selected physiological measures as a g...

Purpose Obesity is on the rise in the United States and there has been a conscious effort on the part of the government and physicians to provide measures to counteract the epidemic. Diet is an important part of therapeutic lifestyle modification, but many physicians fe...

Methods To date, 54 participants (mean age 58.7, 82% female) were randomized to either: 1) lavender (stress-reducing aroma), 2) coconut (detectable placebo), or 3) water (non-detectable placebo). The detectable placebo group was used to assess aroma-mediated expectancy....

Methods Fifty undergraduates in depressive states (CES-D score ≥16, HAMD score≥7, <17) were assigned to 4 groups based on intervention preference in a pragmatic trial. Electro-acupuncture, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), and a combined intervention of electro-acupunct...

Purpose Evidence to date suggests there is no one treatment approach which is clearly superior for low back pain (LBP). It is plausible that combining treatments with small to moderate effect sizes will improve patient outcomes. Additional benefit might also be achieved...

Purpose Relatively little is known about the patterns of complementary medicine (CM) use by HIV-positive people in the last decade, since the introduction of contemporary antiretroviral therapy (ART), or their information requirements. As ART use has evolved, CM use is ...

Purpose Non-intervention research using clinical records is difficult, both from the theoretical and practical standpoints. Progress on the former requires progress on the latter. Several techniques have been developed in the SPICER project to overcome the various pract...

Methods Twenty-one healthy subjects (age: 24.3 ± 2.3 years, 11 female) underwent WI with water temperatures of 33°C (WI33), 36°C (WI36), 39°C (WI39). The procedure was: supine rest (30 minutes), WI (20 minutes) and supine rest (30 minutes). An ECG, the nasal/oral airflo...

PurposeIn the Netherlands, Complementary and AlternativeMedicine (CAM) is offered outside the world of mainstreammedicine. Patients would benefit from an integratedmodel in which CAM is part of mai ...