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The feasibility of mechanism of acupuncture in treating Alzheimer's disease using fMRI |
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DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2013.08.12 |
Key Words
Acunpuncture;Alzheimer's disease;fMRI |
Author Name | Affiliation | CHEN Wei | Department of Radiology, The First Affilated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | ZHOU Ying | College of A cupuncture, Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | BI Hai | Department of Radiology, The First Affilated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China | FU Yu | Department of A cupuncture, The First A ffilated Hospital of Tianjin University of TCM, Tianjin 300193, China |
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Alzheimer disease(AD)is the most common type of dementia and has recently become the focus of research.Acupuncture has been widely used to treat AD in clinical practice.fMRI,as an noninvasive technique,has played an important role in finding brain functional abnormalities and could be used to evaluate the effect and mechanism of acupuncture treating in AD. |
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