Neurobiological Mechanisms of Acupuncture 2014

نویسندگان

  • Lijun Bai
  • Richard E. Harris
  • Jian Kong
  • Lixing Lao
  • Vitaly Napadow
  • Baixiao Zhao
چکیده

1 The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering, Ministry of Education, Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China 2Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 3Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02129, USA 4 School of Chinese Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, 10 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong 5 Center for Integrative Medicine (CIM), School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), Baltimore, MD 21201, USA 6Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA 7 School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China

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دوره 2014  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 2014