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Overview

Brian Berman is affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Medicine. Their research work spans several subfields including Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions, Oncology, and Neurology.

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • Exiting the Anthropocene: Achieving personal and planetary health in the 21st century (2022) published in Allergy
  • Yoga for chronic non-specific low back pain (2022) published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
  • Vitality Revisited: The Evolving Concept of Flourishing and Its Relevance to Personal and Public Health (2023) published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Culinary Medicine Training in Core Medical School Curriculum Improved Medical Student Nutrition Knowledge and Confidence in Providing Nutrition Counseling (2021) published in American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
  • The addition of spices and herbs to vegetables in the National School Lunch Program increased vegetable intake at an urban, economically-underserved, and predominantly African-American high school (2020) published in Food Quality and Preference

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Brian Berman include:

  • Susan L. Prescott
  • Alan Logan
  • Matthew J. Barrett
  • Susan Berman
  • Sarah K. Lageman

The scientist's work has been published often in several key venues, such as:

  • Neurology
  • Challenges
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • SKIN The Journal of Cutaneous Medicine
  • UNC Libraries

Main research topics covered by Brian Berman include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Cutaneous Melanoma Detection and Management
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Studies
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Obesity and Health Practices

Brian Berman's body of work reflects a multidisciplinary approach focused on public health, environmental factors, and clinical practices in medicine. Their research integrates topics related to climate change and its health impacts alongside chronic health conditions and well-being.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of Acupuncture-Electroacupuncture on Persistent Pain

    Ruixin Zhang;Lixing Lao;Ke Ren;Brian M. Berman

  • Effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized, controlled trial.

    Brian M Berman;Lixing Lao;Patricia Langenberg;Wen Lin Lee

  • Acupuncture and dry‐needling for low back pain

    A D Furlan;M W van Tulder;D C Cherkin;H Tsukayama

  • Osteoarthritis: new insights. Part 2: treatment approaches.

    David T. Felson;Reva C. Lawrence;Marc C. Hochberg;Timothy McAlindon

  • Is acupuncture effective for the treatment of chronic pain? A systematic review

    Jeanette Ezzo;Brian Berman;Victoria A. Hadhazy;Alejandro R. Jadad

  • Meta-Analysis: Acupuncture for Low Back Pain

    Eric Manheimer;Adrian White;Brian Berman;Kelly Forys

  • Keloids and Hypertrophic Scars: Pathophysiology, Classification, and Treatment.

    Brian Berman;Andrea Maderal;Brian Raphael

  • Ingenol mebutate gel for actinic keratosis.

    Mark Lebwohl;Neil Swanson;Lawrence L. Anderson;Anita Melgaard

  • Controlled trial of transfusions for silent cerebral infarcts in sickle cell anemia

    Michael R DeBaun;Mae Gordon;Robert C McKinstry;Michael J Noetzel

  • Acupuncture and dry-needling for low back pain: an updated systematic review within the framework of the cochrane collaboration.

    Alessandro Furlan;Maurits van Tulder;Dan Cherkin;Hiroshi Tsukayama

  • Effect of High-Intensity Treadmill Exercise on Motor Symptoms in Patients With De Novo Parkinson Disease: A Phase 2 Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Margaret Schenkman;Charity G. Moore;Wendy M. Kohrt;Wendy M. Kohrt;Deborah A. Hall

  • Acupuncture for peripheral joint osteoarthritis

    Eric Manheimer;Ke Cheng;Klaus Linde;Lixing Lao

  • Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in rheumatoid arthritis patients.

    Elizabeth K. Pradhan;Mona Baumgarten;Patricia Langenberg;Barry Handwerger

  • Risk of recurrent stroke in patients with sickle cell disease treated with erythrocyte transfusions.

    Charles H. Pegelow;Robert J. Adams;Virgil McKie;Miguel Abboud

  • Psychological interventions for rheumatoid arthritis: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

    John A. Astin;William Beckner;Karen Soeken;Marc C. Hochberg

  • Mindfulness intervention for child abuse survivors.

    Elizabeth Kimbrough;Trish Magyari;Patricia Langenberg;Margaret Chesney

  • Acupuncture for osteoarthritis of the knee: a systematic review.

    Jeanette Ezzo;Victoria Hadhazy;Stephen Birch;Lixing Lao

  • A randomized trial of acupuncture as an adjunctive therapy in osteoarthritis of the knee.

    B M Berman;B B Singh;L Lao;P Langenberg

  • The effectiveness of acupuncture in the management of acute and chronic low back pain. A systematic review within the framework of the Cochrane Collaboration Back Review Group.

    M. W. Van Tulder;D. C. Cherkin;B. Berman;Lixing Lao

  • Effects of acupuncture on rates of pregnancy and live birth among women undergoing in vitro fertilisation: systematic review and meta-analysis

    Eric Manheimer;Grant Zhang;Laurence Udoff;Aviad Haramati

Frequent Co-Authors

Lixing Lao
Lixing Lao Virginia University of Integrative Medicine
Ke Ren
Ke Ren University of Maryland, Baltimore
Marc C. Hochberg
Marc C. Hochberg University of Maryland, Baltimore
Patricia Langenberg
Patricia Langenberg University of Maryland, Baltimore
Joseph J.Y. Sung
Joseph J.Y. Sung Nanyang Technological University
Chun-Tao Che
Chun-Tao Che University of Illinois at Chicago
Joel S. Perlmutter
Joel S. Perlmutter Washington University in St. Louis
Mark Hallett
Mark Hallett National Institutes of Health
Stephen K. Tyring
Stephen K. Tyring The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Margaret A. Chesney
Margaret A. Chesney University of California, San Francisco

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