Study reveals changes in brain activity after treatment
August 2, 2023
UCI Susan Samueli Institute for Integrative Health
Endowment Chairman Dr. Richard Harris said:
Professor, UCI School of Medicine
Anesthesiology·
Perioperative care.
In the news: Despite research demonstrating the benefits of acupuncture in treating certain conditions, including chronic pain, skepticism about its effectiveness persists in the West. Part of that may be a lack of understanding of how it works.
Recent data provides insight into the effectiveness of East Asian medicine’s mainstay and how it affects the body. said Richard Harris, professor of anesthesiology and perioperative care at the UCI School of Medicine. washington post About his research showing changes in brain activity after acupuncture.
“People talk about psychedelics shaping the nervous system. Acupuncture does something similar.”
Harris is co-principal investigator on a team of researchers from Harvard University and UCI who recently received a five-year, $5.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine to develop a new repository and database for acupuncture. won money. the study.
Harris holds the Susan Samueli Institute for Integrative Health Endowed Chair. His recent research includes the neurobiological mechanisms of both pharmacological and non-pharmacological (acupuncture/acupressure) treatments for chronic pain and fatigue conditions, and brain neurotransmitters in humans with chronic pain. and the role of its receptors.
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