Quoting from Health CMI this week:"New research concludes that 'acupuncture may function as a somatosensory-guided mind-body therapy.' The research compared MRI readings of real acupuncture with sham acupuncture (needle stimulation at non-acupuncture point locations) at acupuncture point P-6 (Neiguan, Inner Pass). The MRI imaging showed that true acupuncture yielded greater activity over sham acupuncture in the dorsomedial prefontal cortex of the brain. Real acupuncture produced significantly 'greater activity in both cognitive/evaluative (posterior dmPFC) and emotional/interoceptive (anterior dmPFC) cortical regions' and the MRI results showed that true acupuncture 'increased cognitive load.'1"
I think this is demonstrative of the effectiveness of acupuncture.
Link to the Health CMI posting
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