Connectivity and healing: Some hypotheses about phenomenon and how to study it

Advances in Mind-Body Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-28

  Mehl Madrona, Lewis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CASE REPORT; CRISIS INTERVENTION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEALING; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PSYCHOLOGICAL BALANCE; RELIGION; SEIZURE; SOCIAL BELIEF; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALING; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SPIRITUALITY;

EID: 18944364975     PISSN: 07419783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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