Research Publications

The Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine is dedicated to research. Our goal is to discover and collect evidence that demonstrates which treatments work, which ones are harmful and which ones have no effect. We have ongoing research and you can call our office to find out what studies are currently in process. Below is a list of selected research publications:

Konefal, J.: The challenge of Educating Physicians about Complementary and
Alternative Medicine. Academic
Medicine, Vol. 77, No. 9: 1-4, 2002.

Kleber, H, Konefal, J., et al.: Cocaine Acupuncture Treatment Study.
Journal of the American
Medical Association, Vol. 287, No. 1: 55-63, 2002.

Shulman, L, Wen, X.L., Weiner, W.J., Konefal, J, et al: Acupuncture Therapy
for the Symptoms
of Parkinsons Disease. Movement Disorders, Vol. 17, No. 4:
799-802, 2002.

Konefal J. Acupuncture and Addictions. Journal of the American Medical
Association, Vol.
280, No. 17: 1518-1524, 1998.

Konefal J, and Duncan R. Social Anxiety and Training in Neurolinguistic
Programming.
Psychological Reports, 83:1115-1122, 1998.

Konefal J, Duncan R, Clemence C: "Comparison of Three Levels of Auricular
Acupuncture in an Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment Program."
Alternative Medicine Journal, Vol. 2(5):8-17, 1995.

Konefal J, Duncan R, Clemence C: "The Impact of the Addition of an
Acupuncture Treatment
Program to an Existing Metro-Dade County Outpatient
Substance Abuse Treatment Facility." Journal of Addictive Diseases,
13(3):71-99, 1994.

Konefal J, Duncan R, Reese, M: "Effect of Neurolinguistic Programming
Training on Trait Anxiety and Internal Locus of Control." Psychological
Reports, 70:819-832, 1992.

Duncan R, Konefal J, Spechler M: "The Effect of Neurolinguistic Programming
Training on Self-Actualization as Measured by the Personal Orientation
Inventory." Psychological Reports, Vol 66, Spring 1990.