Central nervous system (CNS) diseases, such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, bulbar palsy, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, cerebral palsy, headache, migraine, epilepsy, depression, anxiety, etc., involve complex neural mechanism, and seriously affect quality of life and threaten life safety in patients with these disorders. Multiple neural techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, electroencephalography, etc., provide powerful tools for uncovering complex networks of neural mechanism and exploring key potential biomarkers to reveal the underlying neural feature of those disorders.
As for treatment modality, acupuncture has been utilized in China and other Asian countries for more than 2000 years. To date, numerous studies have shown that acupuncture can protect and manage nerve tissue from injury and has few adverse effects, especially for patients with the above CNS diseases.
During the past several decades, research on acupuncture's neural mechanism and effect has received increasing attention. However, they are still not fully explored. In order to better understand the neural mechanism and effect of acupuncture treatment for the above diseases, Frontiers in Neuroscience launches this research topic, aiming to indicate the future research direction on neural mechanism and effect of acupuncture for CNS diseases.
This research topic will focus on the contribution of researchers worldwide on the treatment of CNS diseases with acupuncture, reveal its neural mechanism and provide a theoretical basis for further improving the clinical effect in acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture treatments include but are not limited to manual acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, electroacupuncture, auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture alone, or in combination.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Neural mechanism and CNS diseases
• CNS and acupuncture
• Acupuncture for stroke
• Acupuncture for bulbar palsy
• Acupuncture for Parkinson’s disease
• Acupuncture for vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease
• Acupuncture for Multiple sclerosis
• Acupuncture for spinal cord injury
• Acupuncture for traumatic brain injury
• Acupuncture for brain tumor
• Acupuncture for cerebral palsy
• Acupuncture for headache
• Acupuncture for migraine
• Acupuncture for epilepsy
• Acupuncture for anxiety and depression
A variety of types of articles are welcome, consisting of Original Research, Clinical Trial, Review, Systematic Review, Case Report, etc.
The publications of this Research Topic should be scientific, innovative, and published online after strict peer review.
Central nervous system (CNS) diseases, such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, vascular dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, bulbar palsy, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, cerebral palsy, headache, migraine, epilepsy, depression, anxiety, etc., involve complex neural mechanism, and seriously affect quality of life and threaten life safety in patients with these disorders. Multiple neural techniques, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging, positron emission tomography, electroencephalography, etc., provide powerful tools for uncovering complex networks of neural mechanism and exploring key potential biomarkers to reveal the underlying neural feature of those disorders.
As for treatment modality, acupuncture has been utilized in China and other Asian countries for more than 2000 years. To date, numerous studies have shown that acupuncture can protect and manage nerve tissue from injury and has few adverse effects, especially for patients with the above CNS diseases.
During the past several decades, research on acupuncture's neural mechanism and effect has received increasing attention. However, they are still not fully explored. In order to better understand the neural mechanism and effect of acupuncture treatment for the above diseases, Frontiers in Neuroscience launches this research topic, aiming to indicate the future research direction on neural mechanism and effect of acupuncture for CNS diseases.
This research topic will focus on the contribution of researchers worldwide on the treatment of CNS diseases with acupuncture, reveal its neural mechanism and provide a theoretical basis for further improving the clinical effect in acupuncture treatment. Acupuncture treatments include but are not limited to manual acupuncture, scalp acupuncture, electroacupuncture, auricular acupuncture, electroacupuncture alone, or in combination.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Neural mechanism and CNS diseases
• CNS and acupuncture
• Acupuncture for stroke
• Acupuncture for bulbar palsy
• Acupuncture for Parkinson’s disease
• Acupuncture for vascular dementia or Alzheimer’s disease
• Acupuncture for Multiple sclerosis
• Acupuncture for spinal cord injury
• Acupuncture for traumatic brain injury
• Acupuncture for brain tumor
• Acupuncture for cerebral palsy
• Acupuncture for headache
• Acupuncture for migraine
• Acupuncture for epilepsy
• Acupuncture for anxiety and depression
A variety of types of articles are welcome, consisting of Original Research, Clinical Trial, Review, Systematic Review, Case Report, etc.
The publications of this Research Topic should be scientific, innovative, and published online after strict peer review.