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    • Do the neural correlates of acupuncture and placebo effects differ? 

      Dhond, Rupali P.; Kettner, Norman; Napadow, Vitaly J. (Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2007)
      The neurophysiological basis of therapeutic acupuncture is not well understood but is likely to consist of both specific and non-specific (e.g. placebo) effects. Data from animal studies suggest that endogenous anti-nociceptive ...
    • Time-variant fMRI activity in the brainstem and higher structures in response to acupuncture 

      Napadow, Vitaly J.; Dhond, Rupali; Park, Kyungmo; Kim, Jieun; Makris, Nikos; Kwong, Kenneth Kin Man; Harris, Richard E.; Purdon, Patrick Lee; Kettner, Norman; Hui, Kathleen K.S. (Elsevier BV, 2009)
      Acupuncture modulation of activity in the human brainstem is not well known. This structure is plagued by physiological artifact in neuroimaging experiments. In addition, most studies have used short (<15min) block designs, ...