CONTEXT Complementary medicine like hypnotherapy is often used for pain and palliative care. Health professionals vary in views about hypnotherapy, its utility, value, and attitudes. AIMS To understand the opinions of health professionals on hypnotherapy. SETTINGS AND DESIGN A semi-qualitative method to survey opinions of the health professionals from various disciplines attending a program...

Points of View is a series designed to address issues faced by many people within the life sciences educational realm. We present differing points of view back to back on a given topic to stimulate thought and dialogue. The focus of all contributed features and research articles in Issues in Neuroscience Education is the teaching and learning of neuroscience, from elementary school to graduate ...

Every professional doing active research in the life sciences is required to keep a laboratory notebook. However, while science has changed dramatically over the last centuries, laboratory notebooks have remained essentially unchanged since pre-modern science. We argue that the implementation of electronic laboratory notebooks (eLN) in academic research is overdue, and we provide researchers an...

Points of View is a series designed to address issues faced by many people within the life sciences educational realm. We present differing points of view back to back on a given topic to stimulate thought and dialogue. The focus of all contributed features and research articles in Issues in Neuroscience Education is the teaching and learning of neuroscience, from elementary school to graduate ...

The problems of the world are not categorised into disciplines. They are far more complex, a reality that the tradition of transdisciplinary research has recognised. When faced with questions in public health and sustainability, the traditional scientific paradigm often seems inadequate, and, at least in medicine, transdisciplinary research has not yet been fully appreciated or acknowledged. Th...

Educating students in the range of subjects encompassing food safety and security as approached from a One Health perspective requires consideration of a variety of different disciplines and the interrelationships among disciplines. The Western Institute for Food Safety and Security developed a subject matter outline to accompany a previously published One Health in food safety and security cur...

Context As obesity has become increasingly widespread, scientists seek better ways to assess and modify built and social environments to positively impact health. The applicable methods and concepts draw on multiple disciplines and require collaboration and cross-learning. This paper describes the results of an expert team׳s analysis of how key disciplinary perspectives contribute to environmen...

The natural science base of modern medicine influences the way in which medicine is delivered and may ignore the spiritual factors associated with illness. The history of spirituality in healing presented here reflects the growth of scientific knowledge, demands for religious renewal, and the shift in the understanding of the concept of health within a broader cultural context. General practiti...

We draw on the theory of allostasis to develop an integrative model of the current stress process that highlights the brain as a dynamically adapting interface between the changing environment and the biological self. We review evidence that the core emotional regions of the brain constitute the primary mediator of the well-established association between stress and health, as well as the neura...

OBJECTIVE To explore risk factors and behaviors associated with aggressive and violent behaviors among adolescents. METHODS A comprehensive review of research literature from various disciplines associated with improving the health and well-being of adolescents. RESULTS Risk factors and behaviors associated with adolescent aggression and violence are discussed via 6 major factor categories:...