fMRI images and bar charts comparing responses to verum and sham acupuncture treatments
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A recently published study conducted by some HST.583 instructors used fMRI to assess the brain basis of pain relief underlying acupuncture and expectancy-evoked placebo treatments. (Source: Kong, J., T. J. Kaptchuk, G. Polich, I. Kirsch, M. Vangel, C. Zyloney, B. Rosen, and R. Gollub. “Expectancy and treatment interactions: A dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia.” NeuroImage 45, no. 3 (15 April 2009): 940-949. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.025. Courtesy of Elsevier, Inc., http://www.sciencedirect.com . Used with permission.)
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fMRI images and bar charts comparing responses to verum and sham acupuncture treatments
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fMRI images and bar charts comparing responses to verum and sham acupuncture treatments.
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A recently published study conducted by some HST.583 instructors used fMRI to assess the brain basis of pain relief underlying acupuncture and expectancy-evoked placebo treatments. (Source: Kong, J., T. J. Kaptchuk, G. Polich, I. Kirsch, M. Vangel, C. Zyloney, B. Rosen, and R. Gollub. “Expectancy and treatment interactions: A dissociation between acupuncture analgesia and expectancy evoked placebo analgesia.” NeuroImage 45, no. 3 (15 April 2009): 940-949. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.025. Courtesy of Elsevier, Inc., http://www.sciencedirect.com . Used with permission.)
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