Tag: acupuncture and fMRI
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Acupuncture
A series of articles about the science and neurobiology of acupuncture treatment. The summary is here. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2014; 2014: 765068. Published online Nov 27, 2014. doi: 10.1155/2014/765068 PMCID: PMC4265683 Neurobiological Mechanisms of Acupuncture 2014 Lijun Bai, 1 , * Richard E. Harris, 2 Jian Kong, 3 Lixing Lao, 4 , 5 Vitaly Napadow, 6 and Baixiao Zhao 7 Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► Acupuncture is currently gaining…
Read MoreAcupuncture 2 Hz and 100 Hz effects on fMRI default mode
This article show different effects of electroacupuncture depending on the frequency used. It also shows that this effect takes 20 minutes to develop. I’m focusing quite a bit on what happens within an individual acupuncture treatment with HRV, and find that usually the autonomic response is going back to baseline at about 15 minutes….
Read MoreAcupuncture Mechanisms: Habituation
I love this study. It is suggesting a novel, and reasonable model for acupuncture’s effectiveness over time. Habituation is a topic I know nothing about, indeed, never really thought about except in regards to opiates. This study lays out a working hypothesis using fMRI showing that acupuncture meets the criteria for habituation, and might…
Read MoreAcupuncture Evoked Response in Contralateral Somatosensory Cortex Reflects Peripheral Nerve Pathology of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
Study showing how the brain reacts differently to acupuncture in subjects with carpal tunnel disease and healthy controls. Med Acupunct. 2013 Aug;25(4):275-284. Acupuncture Evoked Response in Contralateral Somatosensory Cortex Reflects Peripheral Nerve Pathology of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Maeda Y1, Kettner N2, Lee J3, Kim J4, Cina S4, Malatesta C5, Gerber J4, McManus C5, Im J4,…
Read MoreBrain Activation in Acupuncture Local and Distal for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Whole article is here. If I ever get around to learning all the brain areas, I might be able to comment better on this study. Fascinating that the local and distal both worked better than the sham acupuncture on the affected limb. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med. 2013;2013:795906. Acupuncture-evoked response in somatosensory and prefrontal cortices predicts…
Read MoreNeural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensation
I like this study because it’s very precise. It also uses strictly deqi as a stimulation technique. This is part of a larger study I’m doing to come up with new models for acupuncture treatment Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 483105, 15 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/483105 Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling…
Read MoreSignificance of DeQi in Acupuncture Treatment
This article raises more questions than it settles. It is somewhat related to my poster I’m working on. The issue I’m trying to get at with my study, is whether we can really say categorically whether one type of stimulation is better than another. At the Society for Acupuncture Research Meeting in April, they…
Read MoreAcupuncture for Smoking Cessation and fMRI
Nice study looking at a simple treatment for smoking cessation and how the brain images are altered compared to sham acupuncture. They used the same point as the one in these animal studies looking at cocaine and alcohol. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2013 Feb 28. [Epub ahead of print] Neural substrates of acupuncture in the modulation of…
Read MoreBrain Specificity of Acupuncture Points More fMRI
This is another study showing different brain specificity of acupuncture points in their reflection in the brain. In this case, they showed that two points close together anatomically, have different fMRI activity. Recent discussion on a similar topic here. Chin Med J (Engl). 2012 Aug;125(15):2694-700. Functional organization of complex brain networks modulated by acupuncture at…
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