September 5, 2025Frontiers in NeurologyOpen Access

Tension-type headache patients’ brain responses to instant acupuncture stimulation: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

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XZXinyue ZhangChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College WWWenhua WangSun Yat-sen University STSiyuan TaoSichuan University

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Functional MRI reveals brain activity differences during acupuncture in tension-type headache patients and healthy controls, highlighting sensory processing variations.

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Tension-type headache patients displayed increased activity in the anterior cingulate cortex during acupuncture stimulation, indicating altered pain processing.
Both tension-type headache patients and healthy controls showed brain activation in regions like the superior frontal gyrus during acupuncture, suggesting a common response.
Functional magnetic resonance imaging assessed brain activity using measures such as amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation and regional homogeneity.
The findings suggest acupuncture could regulate the limbic system in tension-type headache patients, targeting brain regions responsible for pain emotions.

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Zhang et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23a2cb210217d6477f1fe https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2025.1633823

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Functional MRI reveals brain activity differences during acupuncture in tension-type headache patients and healthy controls, highlighting sensory processing variations.

Tension-type headache patients’ brain responses to instant acupuncture stimulation: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

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Tension-type headache patients’ brain responses to instant acupuncture stimulation: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study

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