Psychology, Neurology, Endocrinology, Immunology, Degeneration
A research team from Isreal performed a cross-disciplinary analysis integrating psychology, Chinese medicine, and oncology biomarkers to search for the emotional roots of breast cancer. The findings demonstrated that the statistically significant relationship between emotional parameters (negative emotions, traumatic imprint and their repression), Chinese Medicine (CM) parameters, and oncologic parameters in breast cancer. Higher intensity […]
It is well known that maternal disorders affect the health of the offsprings. When I did my PH.D project in Chengdu Unviersity of TCM, I put focus on the prenatal PTSD and its influence on the offsprings (Zhang et al. 2018). Prenatal maternal simulation of PTSD during pregnancy could negatively alter the behavioural performance in […]
Source: Ekaterina Pesheva, HMS Communications, The Harvard Gazette, August 12, 2020 A team of researchers led by neuroscientists at Harvard Medical School has successfully used acupuncture to tame systemic inflammation in mice. In the study, published Aug. 12 in Neuron, acupuncture activated different signaling pathways that triggered either a pro-inflammatory or an anti-inflammatory response in animals […]
Among several biological correlates that may explain the principle of acupuncture, the autonomic nervous system (ANS) is frequently considered to be a mediator of acupuncture stimulation because it can interconnect external somatosensory inputs with internal organ responses via the central neural networks. Sympathetic and the parasympathetic nerves broadly regulates the functions of internal organs, which […]
A research team(Kazemi et al. 2019) from Iran and China carried out a randomized clinical trial to compare the therapeutic effects of acupuncture with sham acupuncture on levels of fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) among patients with type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) under treatment with metformin. Acupoints used: SJ5, ST25, ST36, ST40, RN6, […]
A research team from New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine found that the literature strongly indicates that acupuncture, by stimulating points located on the dermatomes proximal to the spinal level of the area where the sympathetic outflow of the particular gut area affected by the pain is,can interfere with the efferent signal that transports information […]
A research team from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine detected the effect of electro-acupuncture (EA) at Lianquan (CV23) on swallowing and swallowing-related(SR) interneuron in ventrolateral medulla (VLM ). Their findings suggested that EA could regulate the swallowing function via activating the SR interneurons in VLM under the physiological condition(Ye et al. 2019) . Original Abstract […]
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There is discussion on weather vaccination is a risk factor for MS or not. A research team from Munich reported that vaccination was not a risk factor for MS. On the contrary, they consistently suggested that vaccination be associated with a lower likelihood of being diagnosed with MS within the next 5 years(Hapfelmeier et al. […]
Lee et al 1 compared 135 patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) with 165 healthy controls using fractional anisotropy (FA) analysis to document differences in brain network connectivity as a biomarker of cognitive deficits and brain tissue dysfunction. The study found that differences in the cingulate area and amygdala and lower FA values in the […]