Prolonged repeated acupuncture stimulation induces habituation effects in pain-related brain areas: An fMRI study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Li, Chuanfu ^a   Yang, Jun ^a   Park, Kyungmo ^b   Wu, Hongli ^a   Hu, Sheng ^c   Zhang, Wei ^a   Bu, Junjie ^c   Xu, Chunsheng ^a   Qiu, Bensheng ^c   Zhang, Xiaochu ^c  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILATERAL PARACENTRAL LOBULE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HABITUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE CINGULATE CORTEX; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SECONDARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SENSATION; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; THALAMUS; ANALGESIA; BRAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MANAGEMENT; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901273880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097502     Document Type: Article

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