Trial reportCurrent medical science2018
Effect of Acupuncture Cooperated with Low-frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Chronic Insomnia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
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- Efficacy of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for insomnia disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Pooled it
- Knowledge map of transcranial magnetic stimulation for insomnia: a bibliometric and visual analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Brain stimulation techniques as novel treatment options for insomnia: A systematic review.Journal of sleep research · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of TES and rTMS for the Treatment of Insomnia: Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression of Randomized Sham-Controlled Trials.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- The effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on state and trait anxiety among undergraduates with insomnia symptoms: a randomized control trial.BMC psychology · 2026Trial
- Acupuncture with the Sancai Acupoint Matching Method for Primary Insomnia: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Trial
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- Effects on resting-state EEG phase-amplitude coupling in insomnia disorder patients following 1 Hz left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex rTMS.Human brain mapping · 2023Trial
- Long-term electroacupuncture and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation differentially slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease in AppAlzheimer's research & therapy · 2025Article
- The change of MRI indexes of brain glymphatic function and sleep status before and after repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation in insomnia disorder patients.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Synergistic acupuncture and neuromodulation for chronic insomnia: a structured narrative review with systematic search and future directions.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Review
- Catgut embedding in acupoints combined with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation for the treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Article
- Electroencephalography microstates as novel functional biomarkers for insomnia disorder.General psychiatry · 2023Article
- Improved Functional Organization in Patients With Primary Insomnia After Individually-Targeted Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The fMRI study for acupuncture on shift work sleep disorder: Study protocol for a randomized controlled neuroimaging trial.Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
The effect of acupuncture cooperated with low-frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on chronic insomnia was explored. Seventy-eight patients with chronic insomnia were randomly allocated into two groups: treatment group and control group. In the treatment group, the patients received acupuncture combined with rTMS treatment, and those in the control group were given acupuncture cooperated with sham rTMS treatment, 3 days per week for 4 weeks. Before and after treatment, the primary outcomes including the scores on Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the secondary outcomes including total sleep time (TST), sleep onset latency (SOL), wake after sleep onset (WASO), sleep efficiency (SE%) recorded by sleeping diary and actigraphy were observed in both groups. Seventy-five participants finished the study (38 in treatment group and 37 in control group respectively). After treatment, the scores in the two groups were improved significantly, more significantly in the treatment group than in the control group. It can be inferred that acupuncture cooperated with rTMS can effectively improve sleep quality, enhance the quality of life of patients and has less side effects.
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