Cognitive and affective interaction with somatosensory afference in acupuncture-a specific brain response to compound stimulus.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Acupuncture is a clinical intervention consisting of multiple stimulus components, including somatosensory stimulation and manipulation of therapeutic context. Existing findings in neuroscience consolidated cognitive modulation to somatosensory afferent process, which could differ from placebo mechanism in brain. Here, we aimed to identify intrinsic process of brain interactions induced by compound stimulus of acupuncture treatment.

Methods

To separately and comprehensively investigate somatosensory afferent and cognitive/affective processes in brain, we implemented a novel experimental protocol of contextual manipulation with somatosensory stimulation (real acupuncture: REAL) and only contextual manipulation (phantom acupuncture: PHNT) for fMRI scan, and conduc

SUBMITTER: Jung C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10321409 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature