Ted Kaptchuk talks about the placebo effect and the therapeutic encounter, including the role of placebo in scientific research and what consumers should know about the placebo effect in their health care decision-making.
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Dr. Schoomaker talks about treatment options or “complements” to standards conventional care or medication among people. Conventional therapies can be used separately or effectively integrated with conventional treatment.
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Dr. Schoomaker discusses a new collaboration between NIH and the VA (Veterans Affairs). Thirteen research projects totaling approximately $21.7 million over 5 years will explore nondrug approaches to managing pain and related health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), drug abuse, and sleep issues. The effort seeks to enhance options for the management of pain and associated ...
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Dr. Steven Cole explains the term “social genomics” and how it differs from psychoneuroimmunology.
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Dr. Cole talks about interdisciplinary nature of social genomics. How it inlfuences and facilitates the health care of the people as a whole.
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Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband talk about relative risk and absolute risk in health Understanding the difference can help people make medical decisions.
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Dr. Pieter Dorrestein discusses his project to visually map microbes and molecules on human skin (3-D mapping).
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Dr. Pieter Dorrestein talks about how he's using a Facebook-like tool to increase collaboration among researchers.
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It presents an interview between Dr. Josephine Briggs, Director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Founder of the Center for Investigating Health Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison. It includes the definition of meditation, its origins, and the evolution of its place in society ...
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Documentary film by Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India, on research in homoeopathy in India, containing the speech of several researchers in the area.
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