This post sums up the players and strategies behind both sides of Prop 61 Drug companies and their wealth have captured the national legislative and regulatory process and even some of the national patient advocacy groups (see below for more).
I am re-posting this from a few years ago. I’m reworking my abstract for the NANS (North American Neuromodulation Society) meeting since the deadline has been postponed. This article is a great resource for some of the basic science behind
I have had a number of patients I’ve treated with acupuncture for severe PMS. As it turns out, there IS quite a bit of autonomic abnormality in these women, so no wonder that autonomic nervous system balancing would help
PLoS One. 2014 Sep 10;9(9):e105328. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105328. eCollection 2014. Relationship between vagal tone, cortisol, TNF-alpha, epinephrine and negative affects in Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel syndrome. Pellissier S1, Dantzer C2, Mondillon L3, Trocme C4, Gauchez AS4, Ducros V4, Mathieu N5,
This is an exhaustive treatment of the subject of the skin’s neuroendocrine role. I’ve only skimmed it, but I’ve already learned a number of interesting facts that might be pertinent to acupuncture. Number of nerves in the dermis decreases with
Citing this study because of the link between the micro trauma induced by acupuncture needles and the HPAA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis), closely related to autonomic balance and stress response. This could, obviously, account for some of the nonspecific effects of
So excited to see this paper!!! tbjkuo_0621-hrv-and-yin-yang-insomnia This is exactly the kind of thing I’m interested in trying to figure out. I may or may not be able to get access to the actual paper, but even the abstract is
This article looks at resting parasympathetic activity in patients with functional movement disorders (tremor, cervical dystonia) versus control population and finds that it is diminished. They interpret this as an increased stress vulnerability, but I think there might be wider
Good source article on the nitty gritty of autonomic balance and immune function: the transmitters, brain regions, immune factors etc… Compr Physiol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Jul 1. Published in final edited form as: Compr Physiol. 2014 Jul;
This article looks at specifics of anxiety and depression symptomatology as a function of HRV. There is correlation with the specific trait of “worry”. I was interested in this part of their conclusion since this approach, of identifying subgroups
