Differential cerebral response to somatosensory stimulation of an acupuncture point vs. two non-acupuncture points measured with EEG and fMRI

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Nierhaus, Till ^a,b   Pach, Daniel ^a   Huang, Wenjing ^a,c   Long, Xiangyu ^b   Napadow, Vitaly ^d,e   Roll, Stephanie ^a   Liang, Fanrong ^c   Pleger, Burkhard ^b   Villringer, Arno ^a,b   Witt, Claudia M ^a,f  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Background rhythm; Electroencephalography (EEG); Functional connectivity; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Somatosensory stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONNECTOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRECUNEUS; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 84933675866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00074     Document Type: Article

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