Abstract #1707

Acupuncture Stimulation changes DMN functional conectivity.

Tomokazu Murase¹, Masahiro Umeda¹, Masaki Fukunaga², Katsuya Maruyama³, Yuko Kawai¹, Yasuharu Watanabe¹, and Toshihiro Higuchi⁴

¹Medical Informatics, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Nantan-shi, Japan, ²Cerebral Integration, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki-shi, Japan, ³Research&Collaboration, Siemens Japan, Shinagawa-ku, Japan, ⁴Neurosurgery, Meiji University of Integrative Medicine, Nantan-shi, Japan

Clinical studies have shown that acupuncture relieves different kinds of pain. However, the effectiveness of these methods is unclear. We used rs-fMRI and FC analysis to examine the RSN activity before and after acupuncture stimulation. In the result, DMN was changed with or without manual acupuncture. The acupuncture stimulation controls a pain by modifying mechanism of pain transmission.

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