Neural Substrates of Acupuncture: from Peripheral to Central Nervous System Mechanisms

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17 January 2020

Editorial: Neural Substrates of Acupuncture: From Peripheral to Central Nervous System Mechanisms

Vitaly Napadow

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Florian Beissner

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Yiwen Lin

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Younbyoung Chae

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Richard E. Harris

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Younbyoung Chae

Kyung Hee University

Vitaly Napadow

Harvard Medical School

Florian Beissner

Insula Institute for Integrative Therapy Research

Yi-Wen Lin

Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University

Richard E. Harris

Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan

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Acupuncture uses needles to stimulate a particular part of the body for the purpose of inducing beneficial clinical effects. It has been applied for a wide variety of disorders, though application to analgesia has attracted the most scientific interest in the past few decades.

In terms of peripheral effects, local cellular and molecular changes around the site acupuncture needle insertion play a crucial role in triggering different clinically relevant effects. Needle stimulation has been shown to activate a number of different receptors for touch, pain and proprioception in the skin, fascia and muscle layer. In terms of central nervous system effects, acupuncture involves more than just needle insertion. There is a complex treatment ritual comprised of multimodal sensory stimulation. Thus, many factors associated with acupuncture needling (i.e., stimulation parameters, bodily sensations, and expectation of treatment effect) can contribute to acupuncture’s clinical effects. Ultimately, multiple factors combine to create a medical context that is multisensory and long-lasting, and can readily be imprinted onto the patient.

The aim of this Research Topic is to provide an interdisciplinary overview of research exploring the neural processing of acupuncture stimulation covering the whole pathway from peripheral to central nervous system and back. We encourage submissions that apply various methods (e.g., neuroimaging, behavioral neuroscience, molecular biology, neurophysiology, neuropharmacology, and cognitive science) to evaluate healthy subjects and clinical patients suffering from various disorders. Research on non-human animal species is also appreciated. In this context, we welcome original research, reviews and mini-review articles.

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Younbyoung Chae

Kyung Hee University

Vitaly Napadow

Harvard Medical School

Florian Beissner

Insula Institute for Integrative Therapy Research

Yi-Wen Lin

Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, College of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University

Richard E. Harris

Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan

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Frontiers in Neuroscience

Perception Science

Frontiers in Psychology

Emotion Science, Health Psychology, Perception Science, Psychology for Clinical Settings, Psychopathology

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Psychopathology

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Cellular Neuroscience Archive, Non-Neuronal Cells, Cellular Neurophysiology, Cellular Neuropathology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Human Neuroscience Archive, Brain Imaging and Stimulation

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

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