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ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2014

Differential activation patterns of FMRI in sleep-deprived brain: restoring effects of acupuncture.

Lei Gao, Ming Zhang, Honghan Gong, Lijun Bai, Xi-Jian Dai, Youjiang Min, Fuqing Zhou

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Article in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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Lei GaoDepartment of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, 277 West Yanta Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710061, China.
Ming ZhangDepartment of Medical Imaging, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, 277 West Yanta Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province 710061, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7001-5919
Honghan GongDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 330006, China.
Lijun BaiThe Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Ministry of Education, China.ORCID 0000-0001-8790-5424
Xi-Jian DaiDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 330006, China.
Youjiang MinAcupuncture & Rehabilitation Department, Affiliated Hospital of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 330006, China.
Fuqing ZhouDepartment of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province 330006, China.
Nanchang University · CNFirst Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University · CNJiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine · CNXi'an Jiaotong University · CN

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Abstract

Previous studies suggested a remediation role of acupuncture in insomnia, and acupuncture also has been used in insomnia empirically and clinically. In this study, we employed fMRI to test the role of acupuncture in sleep deprivation (SD). Sixteen healthy volunteers (8 males) were recruited and scheduled for three fMRI scanning procedures, one following the individual's normal sleep and received acupuncture SP6 (NOR group) and the other two after 24 h of total SD with acupuncture on SP6 (SD group) or sham (Sham group). The sessions were counterbalanced approximately two weeks apart. Acupuncture stimuli elicited significantly different activation patterns of three groups. In NOR group, the right superior temporal lobe, left inferior parietal lobule, and left postcentral gyrus were activated; in SD group, the anterior cingulate cortex, bilateral insula, left basal ganglia, and thalamus were significantly activated while, in Sham group, the bilateral thalamus and left cerebellum were activated. Different activation patterns suggest a unique role of acupuncture on SP6 in remediation of SD. SP6 elicits greater and anatomically different activations than those of sham stimuli; that is, the salience network, a unique interoceptive autonomic circuit, may indicate the mechanism underlying acupuncture in restoring sleep deprivation.

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