ArticleNeuroImage. Clinical2018
Brain activation during the expectations of sensory experience for cutaneous electrical stimulation.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Brain Activities Responding to Acupuncture at ST36 (Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Beyond Needling: Integrating a Bayesian Brain Model into Acupuncture Treatment.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- The role of visual expectations in acupuncture analgesia: A quantitative electroencephalography study.Molecular pain · 2022Article
- Cognitive components of acupuncture treatment.Integrative medicine research · 2021Article
- Enhanced Expectation of External Sensations of the Chest Regulates the Emotional Perception of Fearful Faces.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Decoding expectation and surprise in dementia: the paradigm of music.Brain communications · 2021Article
- Imagined and Actual Acupuncture Effects on Chronic Low Back Pain: A Preliminary Study.Neural plasticity · 2020Article
- Expectations of the Physiological Responses Can Change the Somatosensory Experience for Acupuncture Stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
The brain actively interprets sensory inputs by integrating top-down and bottom-up information. Humans can make inferences on somatosensation based on prior experiences and expectations even without the actual stimulation. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural substrates of the expectations of the sensory experience of cutaneous electrical stimulation on acupoint without actual stimuli. This study included 22 participants who wore sticker-type electrodes attached on three different acupoints on different body regions: CV17 (chest), CV23 (chin), and left PC6 (arm). Participants evaluated
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