Mind/body interventions for hot flashes

Menopause

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 727-729

  Kagan, Leslee ^a,b   Dusek, Jeffery A ^a,b  

^a Mind/Body Medical Institute   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; MEDITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; RELAXATION TRAINING; STRESS; STRETCHING; VASOMOTOR DISORDER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HOT FLASHES; HUMANS; MIND-BODY RELATIONS (METAPHYSICS); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748942660     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.gme.0000235365.57652.a3     Document Type: Editorial

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