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Application of fMRI in the study of central mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of depression
WANG Hao  WANG Long 

WANG H, WANG L. Application of fMRI in the study of central mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of depression[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(9): 103-107, 164. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.09.019.


[Abstract] Depression is a kind of affective disorder caused by various reasons, which is mainly characterized by significant and lasting depression. It belongs to the category of "depression syndrome" in traditional medicine. Acupuncture is effective in the treatment of depression in clinic, and there are many studies on its central mechanism at home and abroad, but due to the differences in research design methods, a unified standard has not been formed. The emergence of functional MRI (fMRI) has a place in the field of brain functional localization, which provides reliable technical support for the study of the central mechanism of acupuncture in the treatment of depression. This article reviews the application of fMRI, the research progress of abnormal brain function network related to depression and the improvement of brain function network in patients with depression after acupuncture treatment, in order to provide new ideas for studying the potential mechanism of acupuncture treatment of depression.
[Keywords] depression；acupuncture；brain function network；functional magnetic resonance imaging；magnetic resonance imaging

WANG Hao1   WANG Long2*  

1 Graduate School of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin 150040, China

2 The Third Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, the First Hospital Affiliated to Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin 150040, China

Corresponding author: Wang L, E-mail: wlkeyan@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81303044); Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. LH2022H082); Heilongjiang Provincial Postdoctoral Research Start-Up Grant (No. LBH-Q19185); Heilongjiang Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Project (No. ZHY2020-120); Innovative Research Projects for Postgraduates of Heilongjiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (No. 2020yjscx016).
Received  2023-01-04
Accepted  2023-07-27
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.09.019
WANG H, WANG L. Application of fMRI in the study of central mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of depression[J]. Chin J Magn Reson Imaging, 2023, 14(9): 103-107, 164. DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2023.09.019.

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