Neuro - Acupuncture

Neuro-Acupuncture is one of the first ever comprehensive Neuroscience based Acupuncture books written by a group of scientists in the fields of Neuro-Radiologic Physics. Neuro-Ophthalmology, as is well as Neuro-Anatomists and physiologists. The principle author of the book, Zang-Hee Cho, Ph.D., Professor of Radiological Sciences and Psychiatry at University of California and Irvine, is one of the leading neurolo-imaging scientists and inventor of the PET (Positron Emission Tomography). He is a world-renowned MRI physicist, who has pioneered numerous MRI imaging techniques including the first Acupuncture - fMRI technique in 1997.

Neuro-Acupuncture is the first textbook illustrating the interpretation of Acupuncture from a Neurological perspective. The extraordinary textbook provides the essentials to modern Neuroscience and its relationship to the field of Acupuncture. The extensive research compiled for Neuro-Acupuncture clearly demonstrates that Acupuncture stimulation leads to activation of upper parts of the brain. Undoubtedly, understanding the scientific bases of Acupuncture can improve its clinical effectiveness. Initial studies with such techniques as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and effects of Magneto-Encephalography (MEG) have discovered effects of Acupuncture on neural correlates. These studies have begun to provide some clues to the mechanisms of Oriental Medicine, such as the meridians and the principles of pain control.