Author: Bai L1, Harris RE2, Kong J3, Lao L4, Napadow V5, Zhao B6.
Affiliation: 1The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China. 2Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. 3Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA. 4School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong ; Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), Baltimore, MD 21201, USA. 5Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. 6School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China.
Conference/Journal: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med.
Date published: 2014
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Volume ID: 2014 , Pages: 765068 , Special Notes: doi: 10.1155/2014/765068 , Word Count: 116
Acupuncture is currently gaining popularity as an important modality of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the western world. Acupuncture has shown efficacy in the treatment of postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting. It has also become a beneficial adjunct for pain management, stroke rehabilitation, and depression. Partly as a consequence of its public acceptance, increasing attention is being paid to explore the scientific explanation regarding the physiological mechanism of acupuncture. This special issue on neurobiological mechanisms of acupuncture compiled 9 articles, most of which represent novel primary research and explore the neurophysiologic mechanisms of acupuncture contributing to current hypotheses of acupuncture action.
PMID: 25525448
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2014/765068/
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