AI-Native Scoping Reviews & Evidence Mapping

Biofield therapies show their clearest signal not as curative medicine, but as low-risk supportive care for stress, anxiety, pain, burnout, and oncology-related symptom burden, while sham-controlled null findings and retracted evidence sharply limit certainty. The full SAIMSARA evidence map is worth reading because it separates plausible symptom-focused signals from weak, heterogeneous, non-replicable, or overstated claims across Reiki, Healing Touch, Johrei, distant healing, and laboratory biofield models.

This paper shows that OCD is not one single disease pattern, but a heterogeneous disorder shaped by brain-circuit dysfunction, comorbidity, and symptom subtype. The full read is worth it because it clarifies which treatments have the strongest evidence, which patients are harder to treat, and why long-term outcome may be better than many assume.