Modulation of electroencephalograph activities by manual acupuncture stimulation in healthy subjects: An autoregressive spectral analysis

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/22/2/028703

Abstract To investigate whether and how manual acupuncture (MA) modulates brain activities, we design an experiment that acupuncture at acupoint ST36 of right leg to obtain electroencephalograph (EEG) signals in healthy subjects. We adopt autoregressive (AR) Burg method to estimate the power spectrum of EEG signals and analyze the relative powers in delta (0 Hz-4 Hz), theta (4 Hz-8 Hz), alpha (8 Hz-13 Hz), and beta (13 Hz-30 Hz) bands. Our results show that MA at ST36 can significantly increase the EEG slow wave relative power (delta band) and reduce the fast wave relative powers (alpha and beta bands), while there are no statistical differences in theta band relative power between different acupuncture states. In order to quantify the ratio of slow to fast wave EEG activity, we compute the power ratio index. It is found that the MA can significantly increase the power ratio index, especially in frontal and central lobes. All the results highlight the modulation of brain activities with MA and may provide potential helps in clinical treatment of acupuncture. The proposed quantitative method of acupuncture signals may be further used to make MA more standardized.

Keywords: manual acupuncture electroencephalograph autoregressive Burg method relative power

Received: 20 June 2012
Revised: 06 September 2012
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PACS:	87.19.le	(EEG and MEG)
	87.85.Pq	(Biomedical imaging)
	07.05.Pj	(Image processing)

Fund: Project supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50537030); the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61072012 and 61172009); the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61104032 and 60901035); and the Tianjin Municipal Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 12JCZDJC21100).

Corresponding Authors: Wang Jiang
E-mail: jiangwang@tju.edu.cn

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Yi Guo-Sheng (伊国胜), Wang Jiang (王江), Deng Bin (邓斌), Wei Xi-Le (魏熙乐), Han Chun-Xiao (韩春晓 ) Modulation of electroencephalograph activities by manual acupuncture stimulation in healthy subjects: An autoregressive spectral analysis 2013 Chin. Phys. B 22 028703

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