J-AIM fulfills important need

Five years of J-AIM

Editorial on the occasion of J‑AIM completing five years of successful and timely publication. At the outset on behalf of the editorial board, I wish to thank all the active members of the Editorial Board members and reviewers without whom this journey would have been impossible. We owe thanks to Medknow, now part of Wolters Kluwer for their professional support. Many developments have happened...

J-AIM: Progress, policy and future plans

J-AIM is completing eight years of successful and timely publications. The journal was established in 2010 by the Foundation for Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) with the goal of facilitating renaissance of traditional health systems and its evidence based integration with modern sciences and medicine. Since 2016, J-AIM is being published by Elsevier and has expanded its global...

Chicken soup really is good for the soul: "comfort food" fulfills the need to belong.

Theories of social surrogacy and embodied cognition assume that cognitive associations with nonhuman stimuli can be affectively charged. In the current research, we examined whether the "comfort" of comfort foods comes from affective associations with relationships. Two experiments support the hypotheses that comfort foods are associated with relationships and alleviate loneliness. Experiment 1...

We need a Triple Aim for Health Equity.

TRPC6 fulfills a calcineurin signaling circuit during pathologic cardiac remodeling.

The heart responds to injury and chronic pressure overload by pathologic growth and remodeling, which frequently result in heart failure and sudden death. Calcium-dependent signaling pathways promote cardiac growth and associated changes in gene expression in response to stress. The calcium/calmodulin-dependent phosphatase calcineurin, which signals to nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT)...