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As Chen [16] correctly pointed out, there are “many conflicting. (MRI). findings in individuals within the ASD.(which result from).factors such as population age, MRI acquisition parameters, details of the image processing pipeline, feature extraction procedures, analy- tic methods used to detect group differences and sample sizes.(which have).contributed to these disparities.”. From the entirety of MRI related studies, one may con- clude that ASD is typically associated with widely dis- tributed alterations of brain anatomy involving both grey and white matter, and with alterations in functional connectivity, which appear primarily decreased, yet also with some regionally increased connectivity. Despite a number of serious attempts, there are as yet no univer- sally established MRI-based criteria that. | BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research article BioMed Central Open Access Complementary and conventional medicine a concept map Carol M Baldwin 1 2 Kendall Kroesen1 William M Trochim3 and Iris R Bell1 4 Address 1Southern Arizona VA Health Care System Research Service Line Tucson AZ USA 2University of Arizona Departments of Medicine and Psychology Arizona Respiratory Center Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health Tucson AZ USA 3Cornell University Policy Analysis and Management Ithaca NY USA and 4University of Arizona Departments of Medicine Psychiatry Psychology Surgery Program in Integrative Medicine Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health Tucson AZ USA Email Carol M Baldwin - carolb@ Kendall Kroesen - kkroesen@ William M Trochim - wmt1@ Iris R Bell - ibell@ Corresponding author Published 03 February 2004 Received 19 August 2003 Accepted 03 February 2004 BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2004 4 2 This article is available from http l472-6882 4 2 2004 Baldwin et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Background Despite the substantive literature from survey research that has accumulated on complementary and alternative medicine CAM in the United States and elsewhere very little research has been done to assess conceptual domains that CAM and conventional providers would emphasize in CAM survey studies. The objective of this study is to describe and interpret the results of concept mapping with conventional and CAM practitioners from a variety of backgrounds on the topic of CAM. Methods Concept mapping including free sorts ratings and multidimensional scaling was used to organize conceptual domains relevant to CAM into a visual cluster map. .