Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with fMRI: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
2012
Background
The mechanisms of action underlying acupuncture, including acupuncture point specificity, are not well understood. In the previous decade, an increasing number of studies have applied fMRI to investigate brain response to acupuncture stimulation. Our aim was to provide a systematic overview of acupuncture fMRI research considering the following aspects: 1) differences between verum and sham acupuncture, 2) differences due to various methods of acupuncture manipulation, 3) differences between patients and healthy volunteers, 4) differences between different acupuncture points.
Keywords:
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation
- Alternative medicine
- Meta-analysis
- Acupuncture point
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging
- Acupuncture
- Magnetic resonance imaging
- Neuroimaging
- Brain mapping
- Functional electrical stimulation
- Biology
- Brain activity and meditation
- Human brain
- Pathology
- Prefrontal cortex
- Neuroscience
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