ACUPUNCTURE THESIS
THE FIFTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON ACUPUNCTURE
KS-0131 LOCATION SEOUL
TITLE: META-ANALYSIS OF
STUDIES ON DYNAMIC IMAGING OF ACUPUNCTURE EFFETS ON HUMAN BRAIN
BY FMRI
ISSUE DATE: November 12-15, 2000
LAST NAME: Dr. Ajandok EORY, M.D. Ph.D.
NAME:
NATIONALITY: HUNGARY
ADDRESS: Naszagy u. 24
ABSTRACT: abbreviation
A-20.
TITLE: META-ANALYSIS OF STUDIES ON DYNAMIC IMAGING OF ACUPUNCTURE
EFFECTS ON HUMAN BRAIN BY fMRI
AUTHOR(S): A.Eory, A.Mesko, Zs. Lang and B. Komaromi
ABSTRACT:
Introduction: Recently more direct evidence for the acupuncture
effects on human brain were published using non-invasive fMRI technique.
We are going to summarize these results by meta-analysis based on
6 publications of the period from Dec. 1996 till Jan. 2000. including
ones by the Korean S.C. Chung, H.J. Park and H.J. Lee from Soul.
Method: Meta-analysis computes an effect an effect size for each
study, pools these effect sizes, and tests them for homogeneity.
It treats a study as the basic unit in the analysis. It tests both
whether the average effect size is different from zeroand computes
the combined probability of the null-hypothesis.
Results: Alltogether 56 subjects were involved in our analysis.
The simulated acupoints were St-36, Bl-60, Bl-67, LI-4, GB-37, GB43,
and SJ-5. As concluded there is a significant average effect size,
which means, that the null-hypothesis: no difference between the
stimulus at acupoints and placebo is not true. At the same time
these acupoints involved are specific for specific brain areas.
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