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Scalp Acupuncture Enhances the Functional Connectivity of Visual and Cognitive-Motor Function Network of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Conclusions: It is indicated that ISSA can regulate the brain functional connection in patients with middle cerebral artery acute infarction in the dominant hemisphere and specifically strengthen the connections between visual, cognitive, motor control, and planning-related brain regions, which may be related to the recovery of movement in the mechanism. This trial is registered with ChiCTR-IOR-15007672. PMID: 33376500 [PubMed]
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - January 1, 2021 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Acupuncture therapy for poststroke spastic hemiplegia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
CONCLUSIONS: This review discovered that acupuncture might be a safe and effective adjuvant therapy for individuals with PSSH. Nevertheless, there were methodological limitations in the included RCTs, and well-designed and large-scale studies should be carried out to confirm our results. PMID: 32347210 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Complementary Therapies in Clinical Practice - April 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Fan W, Kuang X, Hu J, Chen X, Yi W, Lu L, Xu N, Wang L Tags: Complement Ther Clin Pract Source Type: research

Acupuncture Enhances Communication between Cortices with Damaged White Matters in Poststroke Motor Impairment.
Authors: Han X, Bai L, Sun C, Niu X, Ning Y, Chen Z, Li Y, Li K, Lyu D, Fu C, Cui F, Chen Z, Tan Z, Tang L, Zou Y Abstract Stroke is a leading cause of motor disability. Acupuncture is an effective therapeutic strategy for poststroke motor impairment. However, its mechanism is still elusive. Twenty-two stroke patients having a right-hemispheric subcortical infarct and 22 matched healthy controls were recruited to undergo diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning. The resting-state fMRI was implemented before and after needling at GB34 (Yanglingquan). The stroke patient...
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - February 6, 2019 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Structural Changes Induced by Acupuncture in the Recovering Brain after Ischemic Stroke.
In conclusion, acupuncture can evoke pronounced structural reorganization in the frontal areas and the network of DMN areas, which may be the potential therapy target and the potential mechanism where acupuncture improved the motor and cognition recovery. PMID: 29951105 [PubMed]
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - June 30, 2018 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

Altered effective connectivity of resting state networks by acupuncture stimulation in stroke patients with left hemiplegia: A multivariate granger analysis
Abstract The aim of this study was to explore the response feature of resting-state networks (RSNs) of stroke patients with left hemiplegia by acupuncture stimulation. Nineteen stroke patients with left hemiplegia and 17 controls were recruited in this study. Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data before and after acupuncture were acquired using magnetic scanning. The independent component analysis (ICA) was employed to extract RSNs related to motion, sensation, cognition, and execution, including sensorimotor network (SMN), left and right frontoparietal network (LFPN and RFPN), anterior and posterior ...
Source: Medicine - November 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Observational Study Source Type: research

Electroacupuncture for Acute Ischemic Stroke.
In conclusion, this systematic review revealed the evidence in support of the use of EA for acute ischemic stroke, although further larger sample-size and rigorously designed RCTs are required. PMID: 26621442 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Chinese Medicine - November 30, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Liu AJ, Li JH, Li HQ, Fu DL, Lu L, Bian ZX, Zheng GQ Tags: Am J Chin Med Source Type: research

The Effect of Acupuncture on the Motor Function and White Matter Microstructure in Ischemic Stroke Patients.
In conclusion, acupuncture had a better behavioral score than traditional medicine treatment. However, acupuncture did not significantly change WM in the AG compared to the CG as expected within one month after the intervention. PMID: 26576189 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine - November 20, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Tags: Evid Based Complement Alternat Med Source Type: research

The neuropsychiatry of tinnitus: a circuit-based approach to the causes and treatments available
In conclusion, a review of the literature demonstrates the varied neuropsychiatric manifestations of tinnitus. Imaging studies help to explain the mechanism of the association. However, more research is needed to elucidate the neurocircuitry underlying the association.
Source: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry - September 9, 2014 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Minen, M. T., Camprodon, J., Nehme, R., Chemali, Z. Tags: Headache (including migraine), Pain (neurology), Stroke, Drugs: psychiatry, Personality disorders, Psychotic disorders (incl schizophrenia), Radiology, Drugs: musculoskeletal and joint diseases, Radiology (diagnostics), Ear, nose and throat/otolaryngology Source Type: research

Lateralisation of cerebral response to active acupuncture in patients with unilateral ischaemic stroke: an fMRI study.
CONCLUSIONS: Active acupuncture results in lateralisation of functional cerebral response to the contralateral unaffected hemisphere in patients with unilateral stroke. This lateralisation may represent an effect of acupuncture in enhancing a compensatory process by redistributing functions into the intact cortex, particularly in the unaffected hemisphere. PMID: 23822904 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Acupuncture in Medicine - July 3, 2013 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Huang Y, Chen JQ, Lai XS, Tang CZ, Yang JJ, Chen H, Wu JX, Xiao HL, Qu SS, Zhang YD, Zhang ZJ Tags: Acupunct Med Source Type: research

Long-duration transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation alters small-world brain functional networks
Abstract: Acupuncture, which is recognized as an alternative and complementary treatment in Western medicine, has long shown efficiencies in chronic pain relief, drug addiction treatment, stroke rehabilitation and other clinical practices. The neural mechanism underlying acupuncture, however, is still unclear. Many studies have focused on the sustained effects of acupuncture on healthy subjects, yet there are very few on the topological organization of functional networks in the whole brain in response to long-duration acupuncture (longer than 20 min). This paper presents a novel study on the effects of long-duration trans...
Source: Magnetic Resonance Imaging - May 20, 2013 Category: Radiology Authors: Yue Zhang, Yin Jiang, Christopher B. Glielmi, Longchuan Li, Xiaoping Hu, Xiaoying Wang, Jisheng Han, Jue Zhang, Cailian Cui, Jing Fang Tags: Original Contributions Source Type: research

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