ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - IS IT ALL IN YOUR MIND

Authors
TAUSK FA
Citation
Fa. Tausk, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - IS IT ALL IN YOUR MIND, Archives of dermatology, 134(11), 1998, pp. 1422-1425
Citations number
40
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Archives of dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
0003987X
Volume
134
Issue
11
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1422 - 1425
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-987X(1998)134:11<1422:AM-IIA>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
Therapeutic interventions may trigger nonspecific mechanisms whose eff ects are not attributable to the specific properties of a given treatm ent. Recent investigations on the placebo effect as well as other mind -body interactions are helping us to understand some of the underlying mechanisms, as well as beginning to provide us with potentially effec tive adjuvant treatment strategies for a variety of human diseases.