Center for Research on Complementary and Alternative Medicine:
Steven Wolf, Rehabilitation Medicine:
Established that Tai Chi significantly reduces falls and frailty in elderly people.

William McDonald, Psychiatry:
Showed that therapeutic magnets ease depression through transcranial magnetic stimulation.

Donald Bliwise, Psychiatry:
Investigating valerian root therapy as a treatment for sleep disturbance in Parkinson’s.

Jorge Juncos, Neurology:
Exploring the impact of Tai Chi and Qi Gong on the motor disabilities associated with Parkinson’s.

For more information, contact Rebecca Portman (rportma@emory.edu).

Mind/Body Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science:
Andrew Miller, Psychiatry:
Investigating links among the immune system, depression, and
sickness behavior.

Dominique Musselman, Psychiatry:
Demonstrated that depression associated with an immune-boosting cancer treatment can be significantly reduced by pre-treating patients with anti-depressants. Investigating the relationships among depression and
diseases like coronary disease and breast cancer and the pathobiology
of hopelessness.

Philip Ninan, Psychiatry:
Exploring electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve as a treatment for depression.

Brad Pearce, Psychiatry:
Investigating links between prenatal viral infection and degeneration of brain centers implicated in schizophrenia.

Charles Raison, Psychiatry:
Organizing a study of the relation-ship among a Tibetan meditative practice, body temperature, and mood disorders.

For more information, contact Andrew Miller (amill02@emory.edu).