Effect of the Twirling Frequency on Firing Patterns Evoked by Acupuncture

Acupuncture is an important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with a long history. Although there are a number of different acupuncture manipulations, the relationship between the evoked electrical signals and manipulations is rarely investigated. So an experiment is performed that acu...

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Published inLife System Modeling and Intelligent Computing pp. 671 - 682
Main Authors Liu, Yu-Liang, Wang, Jiang, Si, Wen-Jie, Deng, Bin, Wei, Xi-Le
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
acupuncture
firing rate
frequency
ISI
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Summary:Acupuncture is an important component of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with a long history. Although there are a number of different acupuncture manipulations, the relationship between the evoked electrical signals and manipulations is rarely investigated. So an experiment is performed that acupuncture at Zusanli acupoint by four acupuncture manipulations with different frequency to obtain the spike trains at spinal dorsal horn, and then study the correlation between manipulations via neural system outputs. Because the neural information transmission underlies the temporal spike timing, the concepts of interspike intervals (ISI) and firing rate (FR) are introduced. First, distinguish and correlation between different twirling frequencies is obtained through ISI sequences of the evoked electrical signals. Then the variation trend of the firing rate with the twirling frequency is discussed.
ISBN:3642156142
9783642156144
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-15615-1_79