60% of annual deaths worldwide are caused by chronic disease. Let me repeat that – 60% of the people who die each year do so because of mostly preventable chronic disease. More people die every year because of chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and COPD (to name just a few) than any other cause. […]
NICABM Celebrates Its Last Conference
What an exhilarating journey this has been! When we first started our conference in 1988, Mind/Body Medicine was hardly on the map. And now, it has an undisputed presence. It’s gratifying to see hospitals and universities in almost every state incorporating mind/ body medicine into their programs and curriculum. I’d like to think that NICABM […]
PTSD and ADHD – Are We Misdiagnosing?
I came across a study in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect that disturbed me. Victor Carrion, MD led a team of Stanford University researchers who looked at children living in a poor, violent neighborhood. This study built on past findings which associated worsening adult health to their childhood exposure to nine types of adverse […]
Spotlight on Application: How to Treat Human Trafficking Survivors
Imagine being far from home. You were promised a good (or at least better) paying job that would allow you to support your children back home. Instead, you find yourself working in a brothel, servicing up to 20 “clients” a day out of fear that your traffickers will hurt your family if you try to […]
Can a Brain Pacemaker be used to Treat Depression?
The first implantable pacemaker was designed in 1958 to treat heart arrhythmias. But what about a brain pacemaker for depression? What if we could use that 50 year-old cardiology device to treat modern day depression? Dr. John Zajecka of the Rush University Medical Center and his team used a pacemaker-like implant to treat patients with […]