Acupuncture De-qi: From characterization to underlying mechanism

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Zhu, Shi Peng ^a   Luo, Li ^a   Zhang, Ling ^a   Shen, Song Xi ^a   Ren, Xiao Xuan ^a   Guo, Meng Wei ^a   Yang, Jia Min ^a   Shen, Xiao Yu ^a   Xu, Yong Si ^a   Ji, Bo ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Li, Xiao Hong ^a   Zhang, Lu Fen ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; BOLD SIGNAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SENSATION; STIMULATION; SUBCORTEX; THERAPY EFFECT;

EID: 84885443817     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/518784     Document Type: Review

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