Dr. Brian Berman, one of the leading physicians in America to champion the growth of integrative medicine, was named by the Bravewell Collaborative as recipient of the 2005 Bravewell Leadership Award. Dr. Berman is founder and director of the Center for
One of integrative medicine's foremost academic leaders, Brian M. Berman, MD, is the Director and Professor of the Complementary Medicine Program and the Founder and Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, the first integrative medicine center at
while all know medicine's power to harm individual patients and whole populations, presumably few would agree with Ivan Illich that "The medical establishment has become a major threat to health."1 Many might, however, accept the concept of the health eco
The International Association for the Study of Commons (IASC) is launching a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, the International Journal of the Commons. It's now accepting submissions and the first issue will appear in 2007.
One of the characteristic manifestations of prolonged stress is decreased performance in tasks that require attention, including the ability to shift focus as well as to learn and unlearn information. Anxiety and depression can make a person feel as if he
Psychopaths showed less activity in brain areas involved in assessing the emotion of facial expressions, the British Journal of Psychiatry reports. In particular, they were far less responsive to fearful faces than healthy volunteers.