Neurological Disorders and Acupuncture

Behavioral Disorders and Acupuncture

Behavioral disorders are considered risk factors for relinquishment of pet dogs and cats to shelters. While acupuncture may be a safe and effective treatment option, there is little in the scientific literature to support its use. There are, however, several reports in human medicine on the use of acupuncture to treat a variety of emotional disturbances, as well as animal model research that ha...

Stem Cell Therapy in Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Pediatric neurological disorders including muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury are defined as a heterogenous group of diseases, of which some are known to be genetic. The two significant features represented for stem cells, leading to distinguish them from other cell types are addressed as below: they can renew themselves besides the ability to differentiate into cells wi...

Neurological Disorders

Historically, policy makers and researchers have used mortality statistics as the principal measure of the seriousness of diseases, based on which countries and organizations have launched disease control programs. Mortality statistics alone, however, underestimate the suffering caused by diseases that may be nonfatal but cause substantial disability. Many neurological and psychiatric condition...

Gastrointestinal motility disorders and acupuncture.

During the last decades, numerous studies have been performed to investigate the effects and mechanisms of acupuncture or electroacupuncture (EA) on gastrointestinal motility and patients with functional gastrointestinal diseases. A PubMed search was performed on this topic and all available studies published in English have been reviewed and evaluated. This review is organized based on the gas...

Mental Health and Neurological Disorders