Title |
Acupuncture Modulates Temporal Neural Responses in Wide Brain Networks: Evidence from fMRI Study
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Published in |
Molecular Pain, January 2010
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DOI | 10.1186/1744-8069-6-73 |
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Authors |
Lijun Bai, Jie Tian, Chongguang Zhong, Ting Xue, Youbo you, Zhenyu Liu, Peng Chen, Qiyong Gong, Lin Ai, Wei Qin, Jianping Dai, Yijun Liu |
Abstract |
Accumulating neuroimaging studies in humans have shown that acupuncture can modulate a widely distributed brain network, large portions of which are overlapped with the pain-related areas. Recently, a striking feature of acupuncture-induced analgesia is found to be associated with its long-last effect, which has a delayed onset and gradually reaches a peak even after acupuncture needling being terminated. Identifying temporal neural responses in these areas that occur at particular time--both acute and sustained effects during acupuncture processes--may therefore shed lights on how such peripheral inputs are conducted and mediated through the CNS. In the present study, we adopted a non-repeated event-related (NRER) fMRI paradigm and control theory based approach namely change-point analysis in order to capture the detailed temporal profile of neural responses induced by acupuncture. |
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