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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research is entering a new era where state-of-the-art neuroimaging modalities are able noninvasively to measure brain response in humans to both simple and complex CAM stimuli. While the neurophysiological mechanisms of action for many CAM treatments and pain are not well understood and controversy regarding their clinical efficacy remains, neuroimaging research can begin to decode any specific treatment-related mechanisms, if indeed they exist. This chapter will briefly outline the pain neuromatrix and modern neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). We will also summarize neuroimaging results for several CAM treatments, though the focus will be on acupuncture, which has been most extensively researched with neuroimaging. Acupuncture is an ancient healing modality that originated in China and has been in us
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) research is entering a new era where state-of-the-art neuroimaging modalities are able noninvasively to measure brain response in humans to both simple and complex CAM stimuli. While the neurophysiological mechanisms of action for many CAM treatments and pain are not well understood and controversy regarding their clinical efficacy remains, neuroimaging research can begin to decode any specific treatment-related mechanisms, if indeed they exist. This chapter will briefly outline the pain neuromatrix and modern neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), electroencephalography (EEG), and magnetoencephalography (MEG). We will also summarize neuroimaging results for several CAM treatments, though the focus will be on acupuncture, which has been most extensively researched with neuroimaging. Acupuncture is an ancient healing modality that originated in China and has been in us
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