The central regulatory effects of acupuncture in treating primary insomnia: a review
Lin Yao, Yanze Liu, Mengyuan Li, Haizhu Zheng, Mengmeng Sun, Min He, Zhen Zhong, Shiqi Ma, Haipeng Huang, Hongfeng Wang · 2024
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Lin Yao led a team reviewing acupuncture for primary insomnia in a 2024 paper. Long-term sleeplessness harms health, work, and quality of life. Standard drugs bring side effects and dependence risk. Clinical work suggests needle therapy is safe and improves sleep in this condition, and pairing it with drugs can raise benefit while lowering drug dose.
The review gathers clinical and lab evidence on how the therapy acts in the brain. It reports shifts in brain regions tied to thinking and emotion, plus changes in body chemicals, clock genes, inflammation, and energy use. Even one session shifted brain activity like repeated sessions. The authors call for larger, high-quality trials with brain imaging.
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| CREATOR | Lin Yao, Yanze Liu, Mengyuan Li, Haizhu Zheng, Mengmeng Sun, Min He, Zhen Zhong, Shiqi Ma, Haipeng Huang, Hongfeng Wang |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 64 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |