(AHRQ), at the National Institutes of Health^1 and added the information contained in ten recent
compilations of “complementary and alternative medicine” (hereinafter CAM) for mental
health disorders: (1) Dr. Mischoulon’s Natural Medications for Psychiatric Disorders:
Considering the Alternatives, co-edited with Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, M.D. (also of Harvard
Medical School) (2002/2008),^2 (2) How to Use Herbs, Nutrients & Yoga in Mental Health Care,
by Richard P. Brown, M.D. (of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons), Patricia
L. Gerbarg, M.D. (of New York Medical College), and Philip R. Muskin, M.D. (of Columbia as
well) (2009) (“Brown et al.”) ,^3 preceded in 2004 by Brown, R.P. and Gerbarg, P.L., The Rhodiola
Revolution^4 and supplemented in 2012 by Non-drug Treatments for ADHD, by Brown, R.P. and
Gerbarg, P.L.,^5 and The Healing Power of the Breath, by Brown, R.P. and Gerbarg, P.L.,^6 and in
2013 by Muskin, Gerbarg and Brown’s latest distillation, Complementary and Integrative
Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders (“Brown et al. II”)^7 [For the purpose of counting, the
foregoing five books are treated as a single source], (3) The seminal article, “Dietary
Supplements and Natural Products as Psychotherapeutic Agents,” by Adriane Fugh-Berman,
M.D. (of Georgetown Medical School) and Jerry M. Cott, Ph.D. (of the National Institutes of
Health) (1999),^8 (4) Complementary and Alternative Treatments in Mental Health Care, By
James H. Lake, M.D. (clinical assistant professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral
science at Stanford and visiting assistant professor of medicine at the Center for Integrative
Medicine, University of Arizona School of Medicine) and David Spiegel, M.D.,^9 (5) relevant
portions of the Natural Standard Herb and Supplement Guide (2010 edition),^10 (6) relevant
portions of Berkeley Wellness Reports – Dietary Supplements (2010 and 2011 editions,
University of California),^11 (7) relevant portions of Consumer Reports, “Dangerous
Supplements,” published by Consumers Union, September, 2010, at p. 16-20 (2010),^12 (8)
relevant portions of The Mayo Clinic Guide to Alternative Medicine 2011, published by Time
Home Entertainment, Inc. (2010),^13 (9) the compendium by Iovieno, N., Dalton, E. D., Fava, M. &
Mischoulon, D., “Second-tier Natural Antidepressants: Review and Critique” (2011),^14 and (10)
Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona School of Medicine and
bestselling CAM and integral health advocate Andrew Weil, M.D.’s relevant book, Spontaneous
Happiness (2011).^15
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