Brain imaging of acupuncture: Comparing superficial with deep needling

MacPherson, Hugh; Green, Gary; Nevado, Ángel; Lythgoe, Mark F.; Lewith, George; Devlin, Ross; Haselfoot, Robyn; Asghar, Aziz U. R.

doi:10.1016/j.neulet.2008.01.058

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“…Of four studies, two studies [67,68] found no significant difference between deep and superficial needling. Whereas Zhang et al [25] found more activation in almost all brain areas from deep needling and Wu et al…”

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Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with fMRI – a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

Huang

Pach

Napadow

et al. 2012

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur

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Background: The mechanisms of action underlying acupuncture, including acupuncture point specificity, are not well understood. In the previous decade, an increasing number of studies have applied fMRI to investigate brain response to acupuncture stimulation. Our aim was to provide a systematic overview of acupuncture fMRI research considering the following aspects: 1) differences between verum and sham acupuncture, 2) differences due to various methods of acupuncture manipulation, 3) differences between patients and healthy volunteers, 4) differences between different acupuncture points.

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Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with fMRI – a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

Huang

Pach

Napadow

et al. 2012

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur

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“…It is also interesting that laser acupuncture in this study appeared to preferentially activate the limbic cortex ipsilaterally and deactivate the limbic cortex contralaterally. It has been suggested that laser stimulation preferentially activates unmyelinated afferent fibers that project ipsilaterally to the insula [40][41][42], which might also explain the differences from needle acupuncture.…”

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The brain effects of laser acupuncture in healthy individuals: an FMRI investigation

Quah-Smith

Sachdev

Wang

et al. 2011

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur

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“…The 2012 review by Zhang [14] showed illustrations of anatomical structures that can be influenced by needling and documented evidence of at least 17 possible pathways involved in needling. Additionally, effects have been described related to touch and pressure to the skin [43][44][45][46], physiological effects of shallow insertion needling [47][48][49][50][51], non-inserted needling [44,52], deeper needling with varying forms of manipulation [14,42] including electrical stimulation of the needles [40,42,53,54]. Other studies demonstrate that acupuncture can also create effects due to modulation of the somato-sensory system [55], autonomic nervous system [51,[56][57][58], and microcirculatory [48,59], antiinflammatory [60,61] and immunological effects [62][63][64].…”

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Acupuncture: How Might the Mechanisms of Treatment Have Contributed to the Diagnosis of “Patterns” and Pattern-based Treatments – Speculations on the Evolution of Acupuncture as a Therapy. Implications for Researchers

Birch

2018

J Acupunct Res

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Acupuncture is a complex intervention that manifests varied theories, treatment methods, diagnostic methods and diagnostic patterns. Traditionally based systems of acupuncture (TBSAs) often have their own diagnostic approaches and patterns. Despite the wide variety that can be found amongst TBSAs, is it possible that they share a common background in clinical observation and practice? Research has shown that multiple physiological pathways and mechanisms can be triggered by different acupuncture techniques and methods. It is highly likely that clinicians will have observed some of the effects of these responses and used those observations as feedback to help construct the patterns of diagnosis and their associated treatments. This review briefly examines this possibility. Pattern identification will have developed out of a complex interaction of factors that include; theories current at the time of their development, historical theories, personal choices and beliefs, training, practice methods, clinical observations and the natural feedback that comes from observing how things change once the treatment is applied. Researchers investigating TBSAs and pattern identification need to be more explicit about the systems they have investigated in order to understand the biological basis of pattern identification and their treatments.

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Brain imaging of acupuncture: Comparing superficial with deep needling

Cited by 72 publications

References 29 publications

Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with fMRI – a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

Characterizing acupuncture stimuli using brain imaging with fMRI – a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature

The brain effects of laser acupuncture in healthy individuals: an FMRI investigation

Acupuncture: How Might the Mechanisms of Treatment Have Contributed to the Diagnosis of “Patterns” and Pattern-based Treatments – Speculations on the Evolution of Acupuncture as a Therapy. Implications for Researchers

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