Joss, Diane
Lazar, Sara W.
Teicher, Martin H.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mind and Life Institute (Varela)
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (5K01AT009085)
Article History
First Online: 6 February 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The present study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Partners HealthCare (IRB No. 2014P000295), which is the IRB for Massachusetts General Hospital, McLean Hospital, and several other major local hospitals.
: Informed consent was obtained from all research subjects after the research procedure and all potential risks were explained face-to-face to subjects by research staff. IRB-approved informed consent forms were signed by all subjects in the present study.