Acupuncture for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Study

Acupuncture Treatment for Migraine: a Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

Selecting acupoints along meridians is the predominant principle in acupuncture treatment, and it is also considered to ensure acupuncture efficacy. This experiment is to investigate whether specific brain networks gradually come in formation in accordance with this kind of acupoint selection methods.

Every participants in the four intervention groups will go through functional magnetic imaging (fMRI) scan four times: the 1st scan will be performed at their baselines; the 2nd scan will be done after 2 courses (10 times) acupuncture treatment; the 3rd scan will be performed when the 4 courses end; the 4th scan will be operated after three-month enrollment.

Volunteers in waiting list group will undergo the above scans at the same time points in exception of acupuncture treatment.

Inclusion Criteria:

• clinical diagnosis of non-aura Migraine formulated by the international headache society in 2004

Exclusion Criteria:

• people with other types of headache
• people with organic cerebral disorders
• people with primary disorders
• people in moderate or severe anxiety or depression
• people in pregnancy