Research
Research
The Osher Collaborative for Integrative Health applies rigorous scientific research methods to evaluate physiological and therapeutic mechanisms, efficacy, and use of approaches in society as they affect health, resiliency, and well-being.
Patient-centered research aims to develop effective approaches to whole person health. Osher Collaborative researchers use whole systems as a model to understand the inner workings of the human system as well as the impact of therapeutic modalities on all aspects of well-being.
Coordinated efforts identify and foster networks of collaboration and support within member institutions, and also among local and global communities.
Featured Osher Collaborative Research:
Chronic Pain Skills Study with Clinical Hypnosis
Recruiting Participants
The Osher Center for Integrative Health at Vanderbilt is a multidisciplinary outpatient clinic treating patients with chronic pain and complex health issues via integrative services, with goals of improving overall health and well-being of those served. At OCIM, clinical hypnosis has been historically provided on an individual basis (by the PI, Lindsey McKernan, Ph.D). Due to its impact and increased patient demand for this service, the PI will be conducting group hypnosis services in addition to individual services to expand the reach of this program.
Do you suffer from migraine headaches?
Recruiting Participants
The Harvard Osher Center for Integrative Health is doing this study to find out if adding chiropractic therapy to usual medical care can help reduce migraine symptoms for women with migraines.
Population-Based Medicine
Patient Reported Outcome Measurement System (PROMIS)
Practice-based data collection is widely used across clinical settings for monitoring diseases, conditions, health services, and device safety. These databases are critical to the development of a more complete knowledge base of any field of medicine.
Research Funding Mechanisms
The Harvard
Osher Center offers research funding opportunities that will
help move medicine toward a new model of wellness and healing.
Signature Research Programs
The
Northwestern Osher Center wants to transform people’s lives
through integrative health, wellness, and healing across the
lifespan. The Center’s research program focuses on three emerging
and exciting areas of inquiry and discovery.
The EMBODY Study
Recruiting Participants
A study of body awareness using brain imaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI) is being conducted at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the University of California, San Francisco. Tasks include paying attention to sensations in the body, thinking about plans for the day, and cognitive tasks such as a memory task.
The Basic Neuroscience of Mindfulness
Mapping The Meditative Mind
Translational Research Studies
In order to investigate the basic neural mechanisms by which mindfulness practices function, David Vago and the Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory (FNL) have created an integrative theoretical framework and systems-based neurobiological model that explains the mechanisms by which mindfulness reduces biases related to self-processing and creates a sustainable healthy mind.