Variations of brain activities of acupuncture to TE5 of left hand in normal subjects

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 673-686

  Hsu, Sheng Feng ^a   Chen, Chien Yue ^b   Ke, Ming Da ^b   Huang, Chien Hsun ^c   Sun, Yuan Ting ^d   Lin, Jaung Geng ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Brain Wave; Continuous Wavelet Transformation

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959963574     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X11009111     Document Type: Article

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