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Acupuncturists have different brains

January 21, 2014 Lorna Withers

Interesting piece from the Chinese Journal of Medicine about acupuncturists like Lorna Withers

Acupuncturists outperform non-acupuncturists (NA) in tests of behavioural skills associated with their profession and this is reflected in structural differences in their brains. Chinese researchers recruited a cohort of 22 acupuncturists and compared them with 22 non-acupuncturists. In the first set of experiments, tests designed to assess fine motor skill for fingers and tactile spatial discrimination were administered to both groups. Acupuncturists scored better on both tests. A further test was administered to examine the ability of subjects to regulate their emotional responses to images of painful situations. The results of this experiment showed that while unpleasantness ratings for neutral stimuli did not differ between the two groups, for negative stimuli, unpleasantness ratings were significantly lower among the acupuncturists. This demonstrated that the acupuncturists had better emotional regulation ability than controls. In order to see if these behavioural differences were correlated with structural differences in the brain, the researchers used fMRI scanning. Acupuncturists were found to have more grey matter in the left primary somatosensory cortex (SI), a brain region known to play an important role in the perception of touch. In addition, a region of the cerebellum (right lobule V/VI) associated with fine motor control of the fingers also appeared to contain more grey matter in acupuncturists.

Read more at http://www.jcm.co.uk/research-archive/article/acupuncturists-have-different-brains-2452/

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