New light on chromotherapy: Grakov's 'virtual scanning' system of medical assessment and treatment

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-144

  Hankey, Alex ^a   Ewing, Elena ^b  

^a Hethe House   (United Kingdom)

^b Mulberry House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromotherapy; Computational neuroscience; Virtual scanning

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COLOR THERAPY; GRAKOV VIRTUAL SCANNING; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NEUROSCIENCE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 52449116885     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nel060     Document Type: Note

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