1.Evaluation of Moxibustion with Monkshood Cake for Functional Dyspepsia on the Acupoints along Related Meridian: a Randomized and Controlled Clinical Trial
Mengdie WU ; Xinyun HUANG ; Shuang ZHAO ; Xue ZHENG ; Menglu QIN ; Huangan WU ; Jing LI
World Science and Technology-Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine 2018;20(9):1585-1589
Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of moxibustion with monkshood cake on the acupoints along related meridian for functional dyspepsia (FD) patients. Methods: Sixty patients suffering from functional dyspepsia who met with the inclusion criteria were enrolled in our randomized and controlled trial and randomly divided into two different groups, 30 and 28 patients have finished the treatment respectively. Patients of each group were given with moxibustion with monkshood cake on different acupoints, Group A chose acupoints along related meridian (ST 34, ST 36, ST 40 and ST42), while Group B chose acupoints along non-related meridian (GB 34, GB 36, GB 37 and GB 40) . Patients of each group received moxibustion treatment on alternate days, 3 times a week for a total of 12 times. The efficacy was evaluated using the Nepean Dyspepsia Index (NDI) and the Somatic Self-rating Scale (SSS) before, 2 weeks after and 4 weeks after the treatment, respectively. Results: Considering the NDI scale, the result showed that improvement scores of Group A were higher than that of Group B with statistical significance (P < 0.01) . Both groups had improved patients' quality of life after the treatment (P < 0.05), but the improvements in Group A were significantly better than those in Group B (P < 0.01) . Conclusion: The clinical efficacy of moxibusion with monkshood cake on the acupoints along related meridian was better than that of the non-related meridian.
2. Mapping Domain- and Age-Specific Functional Brain Activity for Children’s Cognitive and Affective Development
Lei HAO ; Menglu CHEN ; Jiahua XU ; Min JIANG ; Yanpei WANG ; Yong HE ; Sha TAO ; Qi DONG ; Shaozheng QIN ; Lei HAO ; Lei HAO ; Menglu CHEN ; Jiahua XU ; Min JIANG ; Yanpei WANG ; Yong HE ; Shaozheng QIN ; Lei LI ; Linhua JIANG ; Xu CHEN ; Jiang QIU ; Xu CHEN ; Jiang QIU ; Shuping TAN ; Jia-Hong GAO
Neuroscience Bulletin 2021;37(6):763-776
The human brain undergoes rapid development during childhood, with significant improvement in a wide spectrum of cognitive and affective functions. Mapping domain- and age-specific brain activity patterns has important implications for characterizing the development of children’s cognitive and affective functions. The current mainstay of brain templates is primarily derived from structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and thus is not ideal for mapping children’s cognitive and affective brain development. By integrating task-dependent functional MRI data from a large sample of 250 children (aged 7 to 12) across multiple domains and the latest easy-to-use and transparent preprocessing workflow, we here created a set of age-specific brain functional activity maps across four domains: attention, executive function, emotion, and risky decision-making. Moreover, we developed a toolbox named Developmental Brain Functional Activity maps across multiple domains that enables researchers to visualize and download domain- and age-specific brain activity maps for various needs. This toolbox and maps have been released on the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse website (http://www.nitrc.org/projects/dbfa). Our study provides domain- and age-specific brain activity maps for future developmental neuroimaging studies in both healthy and clinical populations.