Parkinson's Disease and Complementary Health Approaches

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Parkinson's

Clinical Digest: Parkinson's Disease and Complementary Health Approaches

This issue of the digest provides a summary of evidence for several complementary health approaches that have been studied for Parkinson’s disease, including natural products and mind and body practices.

 

New CME/CEU Videolecture Available

Dr. John F. Cryan presents, "Towards Psychobiotics: The Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behavior" on the newly posted CME/CEU videolecture. Watch and earn continuing medical education credits, free!

 


Resources for Researchers

New Funding Opportunities

Technical Assistance Webinar: NIH/DoD/VA Pain Management Collaboratory Funding Opportunity--Coordinating Center and Demonstration Projects

January 23, 2017; 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. ET

 

NCCIH will host an hour-long pre-application technical assistance webinar for two new funding opportunities:

NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory - Coordinating Center (U24)  RFA-AT-17-002

NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory - Pragmatic Clinical Trials Demonstration Projects (UH2/UH3) RFA-AT-17-00

 

Webinar speakers will provide pre-application technical assistance and convey important information to prospective grant applicants, including an overview of the research grant submission process; an in-depth discussion of the funding opportunity announcements; and what to expect in the peer-review process.

 

The presentation will begin at 1:30 p.m., followed by a 30-minute participant Q&A session at 2:00 p.m. (ET). The registration website will be available soon.

 


Upcoming Events

Pain Special Interest Group Seminar Series

If you work or live near the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland, you may have an interest in the NIH Pain Seminar Series, which features presentations by national leaders in the field of pain. Seminars highlight research conducted on model organisms at the behavioral, molecular, cellular and systems levels, as well as brain imaging work in patients and healthy volunteers. The seminars are held on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD (sorry, no video option available).

January 12, 2017 - Challenges to Translational Pain Research

February 9, 2017 - Pain Control by Inflammation and Non-Neuronal Cells