Difficulties Choosing Control Points in Acupuncture Research. Response: Commentary: Differential Cerebral Response, Measured with Both an EEG and fMRI, to Somatosensory Stimulation of a Single Acupuncture Point vs. Two Non-Acupuncture Points

Till Nierhaus,Daniel Pach,Wenjing Huang,Xiangyu Long,Vitaly Napadow,Stephanie Roll,Fanrong Liang,Burkhard Pleger,Arno Villringer,Claudia M. Witt

Difficulties Choosing Control Points in Acupuncture Research. Response: Commentary: Differential Cerebral Response, Measured with Both an EEG and fMRI, to Somatosensory Stimulation of a Single Acupuncture Point vs. Two Non-Acupuncture Points

2016

Till Nierhaus
Daniel Pach
Wenjing Huang
Xiangyu Long
Vitaly Napadow
Stephanie Roll
Fanrong Liang
Burkhard Pleger
Arno Villringer
Claudia M. Witt

The existence of point specificity in acupuncture is still controversial (Choi et al., 2012). Therefore, a thoughtful choice of control points is very important when evaluating point specific effects in acupuncture research.

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Acupuncture
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Developmental psychology
Somatosensory system
Neuroscience
Acupuncture point
Electroencephalography
Stimulation
functional connectivity

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