OREGON CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

I. General Complementary and Alternative Medicine

II. CAM Modalities

Naturopathy
Chiropractic
Acupuncture/Oriental Medicine
Massage therapy
Botanicals and other dietary supplements
Mind-Body Medicine (yoga, tai-chi, meditation, dance, music and art therapy)
Homeopathy
Energy therapies and biomagnetism (including Reiki)

III. Use of CAM in Neurological Disorders

General Neurology
Demyelinating diseases (multiple sclerosis and related disorders)
Dementias (Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders)
Migraine and other headaches
Cerebrovascular disease/stroke
Peripheral neuropathies (including nerve compression syndromes)
Neuropathic pain
Muscle diseases
Movement Disorders (e.g., Parkinson’s disease & Huntington’s disease)
Epilepsy
Spinal cord diseases (including ALS and motor neuron diseases)
Spine and intervertebral disk diseases
Brain and spinal cord tumors
Infections of the central nervous system
Attention deficit disorder
Sleep disorders
Congenital, developmental and genetic abnormalities
Spinal cord injury
Other

IV. Other CAM Research Resources

National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)

Pointers to other university CAM sites

The National Library of Medicine's Pub Med

BioMed Central, research articles in CAM

Alternative Complementary Therapies Journal

Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine Journal

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Rocky Mountain MS Center

CAM Masters Program at Georgetown University

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements

V. ORCCAMIND-related publications

Haas M, Groupp E, Aickin M, Fairweather A, Ganger B, Attwood M, Cummins C, Baffes L. Dose-response for chiropractic care of chronic cervicogenic headache and associated neck pain: a randomized pilot study. J Manipulative Physiol Ther (accepted).

Kishiyama S, Carlsen J, Lawrence J, Small E, Zajdel D, Oken B. Yoga as an experimental intervention for cognition in multiple sclerosis. International Journal of Yoga Therapy 2002, 12:57-62.

Marracci, GH, Jones RE, McKeon GP, and Bourdette DN. Alpha lipoic acid inhibits T cell migration into the spinal cord and suppresses and treats experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. Journal of Neuroimmunology, 2002;131:104-114.

Quinn, J., Suh, J., Moore, M.M., Kaye, J., and Frei, B. Antioxidants in Alzheimer’s disease – vitamin C delivery to a demanding brain. J. Alzheimers Dis. 2003, 5, 309-313.

Stackman, R.W., Eckenstein, F., Frei, B., Kulhanek, D., Nowlin, J., and Quinn, J.F. Prevention of age-related spatial memory deficit in a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease by chronic Gingko biloba treatment. Exp. Neurol. 2003, 184, 510-520.

Morris CD, McCracken KW, Seif AE, Chan B, Reller MD. Folic acid supplementation in early pregnancy reduces the risk of conotruncal heart defects and ventricular septal defects. NEJM (submitted, 2004).

Oken BS, Kishiyama S, Zajdel D, Bourdette D, Carlsen J, Haas M, et al. Randomized controlled trial of yoga and exercise in multiple sclerosis. Neurology 2004, 62:2058-2064.

Oken BS, Kishiyama S, Zajdel D, Flegal K, Dehen C, Haas M, et al. Randomized controlled trial of exercise and yoga in healthy seniors. Neurology 2004 (suppl 5), 62:A130.

V.Yadav, G Marracci, J Lovera, W Woodward, K Bogardus, W Marquardt, L Shinto, C Morris and D Bourdette. Lipoic acid in multiple sclerosis: a pilot study. Multiple Sclerosis 2005, 11:1-7.

Kishiyama SS, Leahy MJ, Zitzelberger TA, Guariglia R, Zajdel DP, Calvert JF, Kaye JA, Oken BS. Patterns of dietary supplement usage in demographically diverse older people. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2005, 11:48-53.

Oken B, Flegal K, Zajdel D, Kishiyama S, Lovera J, Bagert B, Bourdette D Cognition and fatigue in multiple sclerosis: potential impact of medications with CNS side effects. Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development (in press).

Oken, BS, Zajdel D, Kishiyama S, Flegal K, Dehen C, Haas M, Kraemer DF, Lawrence J, Leyva J. Randomized controlled 6-month trial of yoga in healthy seniors: effects on cognition and quality of life. Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine 2006, 12:40-49.