Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensations : Evidence from a fMRI Study

المؤلفون المشاركون

Chan, Suk-Tak
Wang, Xiaoling
Fang, Ji-Liang
Rosen, Bruce R.
Liu, Jing
Nixon, Erika E.
Hui, Kathleen K. S.
Kwong, Kenneth K.

المصدر

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

العدد

المجلد 2013، العدد 2013 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2013)، ص ص. 1-15، 15ص.

الناشر

Hindawi Publishing Corporation

تاريخ النشر

2013-08-25

دولة النشر

مصر

عدد الصفحات

15

التخصصات الرئيسية

الطب البشري

الملخص EN

Deqi response, a psychophysical response characterized by a spectrum of different needling sensations, is essential for Chinese acupuncture clinical efficacy.

Previous neuroimaging research works have investigated the neural correlates of an overall deqi response by summating the scores of different needling sensations.

However, the roles of individual sensations in brain activity and how they interact with each other remain to be clarified.

In this study, we applied fMRI to investigate the neural correlates of individual components of deqi during acupuncture on the right LV3 (Taichong) acupoint.

We selected a subset of deqi responses, namely, pressure, heaviness, fullness, numbness, and tingling.

Using the individual components of deqi of different subjects as covariates in the analysis of percentage change of bold signal, pressure was found to be a striking sensation, contributing to most of negative activation of a limbic-paralimbic-neocortical network (LPNN).

The similar or opposite neural activity in the heavily overlapping regions is found to be responding to different needling sensations, including bilateral LPNN, right orbitofrontal cortex, and bilateral posterior parietal cortex.

These findings provide the neuroimaging evidence of how the individual needle sensations interact in the brain, showing that the modulatory effects of different needling sensations contribute to acupuncture modulations of LPNN network.

نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)

Wang, Xiaoling& Chan, Suk-Tak& Fang, Ji-Liang& Nixon, Erika E.& Liu, Jing& Kwong, Kenneth K.…[et al.]. 2013. Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensations : Evidence from a fMRI Study. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine،Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475171

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)

Wang, Xiaoling…[et al.]. Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensations : Evidence from a fMRI Study. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine No. 2013 (2013), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475171

نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)

Wang, Xiaoling& Chan, Suk-Tak& Fang, Ji-Liang& Nixon, Erika E.& Liu, Jing& Kwong, Kenneth K.…[et al.]. Neural Encoding of Acupuncture Needling Sensations : Evidence from a fMRI Study. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2013. Vol. 2013, no. 2013, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-475171

نوع البيانات

مقالات

لغة النص

الإنجليزية

الملاحظات

Includes bibliographical references

رقم السجل

BIM-475171