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T Nader

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PubMed2000

Improvements in chronic diseases with a comprehensive natural medicine approach: a review and case series.

Approximately 40% of the US population report using complementary and alternative medicine, including Maharishi Vedic Medicine (MVM), a traditional, comprehensive system of natural medicine, for relief from chronic and other disorders. Although many reports suggest health benefits from individual MVM techniques, reports on integrated holistic approaches are rare. This case series, designed to investigate the effectiveness of an integrated, multimodality MVM program in an ideal clinical setting, describes the outcomes in four patients: one with sarcoidosis; one with Parkinson's disease; a third with renal hypertension; and a fourth with diabetes/essential hypertension/anxiety disorder. Standard symptom reports and objective markers of disease were evaluated before, during, and after the treatment period. Results suggested substantial improvements as indicated by reductions in major signs, symptoms, and use of conventional medications in the four patients during the 3-week in-residence treatment phase and continuing through the home follow-up program.

Chronic Disease↗
PubMed1999

Sustained attention and related perceptuomotor functions.

The present study examined the relationship between two measures of sustained attention on the Continuous Performance Test (reaction time and omission errors) and several performance measures on neuropsychological tests. Analysis suggests that sustained attention as measured by processing speed predicts performance on neuropsychological measures of relatively greater complexity and that the Stroop test, which requires maintaining steady focus on a changing stimulus field, may be more sensitive to lapses in attention than other neuropsychological tests.

Adult↗
PubMed1999

Sustained attention on a continuous performance test.

The present study compared means of 54 nonpatients on two Continuous Performance Test measures in five administration conditions. Both response measures differentiated performance among the conditions, certain of which may have an alerting function that facilitates deployment of attention. Appreciable attentional demand or effort, however, may limit this facilitative effect.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1990

d-Fenfluramine suppresses the increased calorie and carbohydrate intakes and improves the mood of women with premenstrual depression.

The ability of d-fenfluramine, a drug that releases brain serotonin and blocks its reuptake, to relieve premenstrual depression and excessive calorie and carbohydrate intakes was examined in 17 women with premenstrual syndrome. Subjects received d-fenfluramine (15 mg twice daily) or placebo, in random order, during the luteal phases of six menstrual cycles; ie, for three control and three treatment cycles each. Behavior was assessed with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and its Addendum, and intakes of calories and nutrients were measured by allowing subjects unlimited access to isocaloric meal and snack foods rich in carbohydrates or protein. Pre-treatment follicular scores using the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and its Addendum were 2.0 +/- 0.5 and 0.5 +/- 0.5 (mean +/- SEM), respectively; corresponding luteal scores were 21.2 +/- 0.8 and 10.2 +/- 0.6 (P less than .0001). Luteal phase intakes of kilocalories, carbohydrates, and fats were also increased above follicular levels (P less than .01). d-Fenfluramine decreased premenstrual Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and Addendum scores by 62% (P less than .001) and 60% (P less than .001), respectively; placebo reduced them by only 28% (P less than .02) and 30% (P less than .02). d-Fenfluramine also fully suppressed the premenstrual rise in kilocalorie, carbohydrate, and fat intakes (P less than .01).

Adult↗
PubMed1988

Calorie and nutrient intakes of elderly and young subjects measured under identical conditions.

The calorie and nutrient intakes of elderly and young healthy males and females were monitored for four days at the MIT Clinical Research Center. Subjects were free to select foods for meals and snacks from among a variety of high protein and high carbohydrate foods; when necessary, fat was added to make the foods isocaloric. The elderly subjects consumed significantly fewer calories, carbohydrates, and fat than the young subjects, both absolutely and when adjusted for differences in body weight (p less than .001). Mealtime protein intake when adjusted for body weight was similar among males of both age groups and significantly greater than the intakes of both young and elderly females (p less than .001). However, young males consumed more protein from snacks than young females or older adults and thus exhibited the highest daily protein intakes. The two age groups differed significantly in their pattern of food intake from meals and snacks. Elderly adults consumed almost 85% of their total calories from meals, whereas the younger adults consumed about 72% (p less than .001) from meals. Both groups snacked mainly on carbohydrate-rich foods. The elderly subjects consumed significantly fewer snacks than the young; their daily average consumption was 2.2 and that of the young, 4.5 (p less than .001). The persistence of different patterns of food intake between young and elderly individuals when measured under identical clinical conditions suggests that age per se, in addition to age-associated lifestyle changes, may affect eating behavior.

Adult↗