ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Neural Responses of Acupuncture for Treating Functional Dyspepsia: An fMRI Study.
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- Brain Activities Responding to Acupuncture at ST36 (Frontiers in neurology · 2022Pooled it
- Effectiveness and Safety of Herbal Decoctions for Functional Dyspepsia in Korean Medicine Clinics: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study Protocol.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Decoding the mechanisms of acupuncture by neuroimaging: an integrated review from networks to molecules.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Review
- Acupuncture's Multisystem Neuroimmunomodulation: Central-Peripheral Interactions in Gastroenteric, Psychiatric, and Chronic Pain Disorders.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Review
- Effects of acupuncture versus moxibustion on functional dyspepsia: a randomized clinical trial.Chinese medicine · 2025Article
- Study protocol for a prospective, investigator-initiated clinical trial on the vascular effects of acupuncture in the abdomen and lower limbs for patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome.International journal of colorectal disease · 2025Article
- The influence of post-processing methods and frequency bands on rs-fMRI: An example of electroacupuncture at Zusanli (ST36).Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
- Effects of acupuncture at limb Acupoints-Guangming (GB37) on UDVA, CS, and EEG microstate in myopia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Aberrant intrinsic brain activities in functional gastrointestinal disorders revealed by seed-based d mapping with permutation of subject images.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- Clinical-functional brain connectivity signature predicts longitudinal symptom improvement after acupuncture treatment in patients with functional dyspepsia.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
- Research trends in the field of the gut-brain interaction: Functional dyspepsia in the spotlight - An integrated bibliometric and science mapping approach.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Bibliometric analysis of functional dyspepsia research trends over the past 20 years.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Different acupoints exhibiting similar therapeutic effects are a common phenomenon in acupuncture clinical practice. However, the mechanism underlying this phenomenon remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the similarities and differences in cerebral activities elicited through stimulation of CV12 and ST36, the two most commonly used acupoints, in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, so as to partly explore the mechanism of the different acupoints with similar effects. Thirty-eight eligible functional dyspepsia (FD) patients were randomly assigned into either group A (CV12 group) or group B (ST36 group). Each patient received five acupuncture treatments per week for 4 weeks. The Symptom Index of Dyspepsia (SID), Nepean Dyspepsia Symptom Index (NDSI), and Nepean Dyspepsia Life Quality Index (NDLQI) were used to assess treatment efficacy. Functional MRI (fMRI) scans were performed to detect cerebral activity changes at baseline and at the end of the treatment. The results demonstrated that (1) improvements in NDSI, SID, and NDLQI were found in both group A and group B (
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