Commentary: 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 10, Issue FEB2016, 2016, Pages

  Wong, Yiu Ming ^a  

^a Health Science Unit (PEC)   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Human anatomy; Somatosensory stimulation

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; DERMATOME; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; NOTE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD; SKIN NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 84961707457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00063     Document Type: Note

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