ArticlePloS one2014
Decreased peripheral and central responses to acupuncture stimulation following modification of body ownership.
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- Psychophysical responses in patients receiving a mock laser within context of an acupuncture clinical trial: an interoceptive perspective.BMC complementary and alternative medicine · 2017Trial
- Beyond Needling: Integrating a Bayesian Brain Model into Acupuncture Treatment.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Cognitive and affective interaction with somatosensory afference in acupuncture-a specific brain response to compound stimulus.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The role of visual expectations in acupuncture analgesia: A quantitative electroencephalography study.Molecular pain · 2022Article
- Embodying an artificial hand increases blood flow to the investigated limb.Open research Europe · 2021Article
- Treatment of Rosacea using acupuncture for improving the local skin microcirculation: A case report.Medicine · 2018Article
- Brain activation during the expectations of sensory experience for cutaneous electrical stimulation.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2018Article
- Neural Network Underlying Recovery from Disowned Bodily States Induced by the Rubber Hand Illusion.Neural plasticity · 2016Article
- Cortical Activation Patterns of Bodily Attention triggered by Acupuncture Stimulation.Scientific reports · 2015Article
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Abstract
Acupuncture stimulation increases local blood flow around the site of stimulation and induces signal changes in brain regions related to the body matrix. The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an experimental paradigm that manipulates important aspects of bodily self-awareness. The present study aimed to investigate how modifications of body ownership using the RHI affect local blood flow and cerebral responses during acupuncture needle stimulation. During the RHI, acupuncture needle stimulation was applied to the real left hand while measuring blood microcirculation with a LASER Doppler imager (Experiment 1, N = 28) and concurrent brain signal changes using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI; Experiment 2, N = 17). When the body ownership of participants was altered by the RHI, acupuncture stimulation resulted in a significantly lower increase in local blood flow (Experiment 1), and significantly less brain activation was detected in the right insula (Experiment 2). This study found changes in both local blood flow and brain responses during acupuncture needle stimulation following modification of body ownership. These findings suggest that physiological responses during acupuncture stimulation can be influenced by the modification of body ownership.
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