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ReviewBrain sciences2025

Beyond Needling: Integrating a Bayesian Brain Model into Acupuncture Treatment.

Beomku Kang, Da-Eun Yoon, Yeonhee Ryu, In-Seon Lee, Younbyoung Chae

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Review in Brain sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Beomku KangDepartment of Meridian and Acupoints, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-3221-6351
Da-Eun YoonDepartment of Meridian and Acupoints, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea.
Yeonhee RyuKM Science Research Division, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon 34054, Republic of Korea.
In-Seon LeeDepartment of Meridian and Acupoints, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-9275-3111
Younbyoung ChaeDepartment of Meridian and Acupoints, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 02447, Republic of Korea.ORCID 0000-0001-6787-2215

Funding

Institute of Information and Communications Technology Planning and Evaluation (IITP) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) RS-2022-00155911National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MSIT) RS-2024-00449485
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acupuncture is a medical tool in which a sterile needle is used to penetrate and stimulate a certain body area (

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acupunctureBayesian brainindividual differencepredictive coding

Identifiers

PMID40002525
PMCPMC11852460

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