现代脑功能磁共振诠释传统针刺机制

Modern fMRI exploring the neuromechanism of traditional acupuncture

功能磁共振成像(functional MRI,fMRI)近年在针灸脑效应、针灸治病脑机制研究的应用逐渐增多,取得了新的进展。研究在健康受试者及患者的治疗前后进行,采用任务态、静息态、脑结构等多模态成像方法,观察针刺后的脑形态、功能激活及网络的变化,初步发现了人体经穴针刺的脑效应特征,特别是针灸疗效相关的脑功能及网络变化规律,丰富了针灸脑科学的内涵。

In recent years,functional magnetic resonance imaging(fMRI)has gradually increased to explore the brain effect and neuromechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion,and has made a series of new progress.The study was carried out on healthy subjects or the patients before and after the treatment.Multimodality imaging methods such as task,resting state and brain structure were used to observe the changes of brain morphology,functional activation and network after acupuncture.The brain effect characteristics of acupuncture at acupoints,especially the brain function and network change rules related to acupuncture effect,were preliminarily discovered.These findings enriched the basis of acupuncture as the brain science aspect.