About the Authors

Wolf E. Mehling

mehlingw@ocim.ucsf.edu

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Viranjini Gopisetty

Affiliation Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jennifer Daubenmier

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Cynthia J. Price

Affiliation Department of Psychosocial and Community Health Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Frederick M. Hecht

Affiliations Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Anita Stewart

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: WEM JD CJP FMH AS. Analyzed the data: WEM VG JD CJP. Wrote the paper: WEM JD CJP FMH AS.