title: Alternative medicine. Is it all in your mind?
abstract: Therapeutic interventions may trigger nonspecific mechanisms whose effects are not attributable to the specific properties of a given treatment. 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 effective adjuvant treatment strategies for a variety of human diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md., USA. ftausk@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu
authors.forename: F A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Tausk
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies; D006801:Humans; D015990:Placebo Effect; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*