scholarly journals Ten Years Evidence-Based High-Tech Acupuncture Part 3: A Short Review of Animal Experiments

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Litscher
Keyword(s):  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Laser Acupuncture ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Spectral Edge Frequency ◽  
Spectral Edge ◽  
Acupuncture Research ◽  
Medical University

High-tech acupuncture research has been performed for 10 years at the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine at the Medical University of Graz. This article as a part of a series comprises animal experiments in the field of needle and laser acupuncture. The investigations presented in this article were performed in pigs, dogs and sheep. In all studies sedative stimulation effects of the acupoint Yintang are described using different measurement parameters (EEG-bispectral index, EEG spectral edge frequency and metabolic parameters).

scholarly journals Ten Years Evidence-Based High-Tech Acupuncture—A Short Review of Peripherally Measured Effects

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Litscher
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Review Article ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Medical University ◽  
First Time ◽  
Needle Acupuncture

Since 1997, the Research Unit of Biomedical Engineering in Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine of Graz Medical University has been dealing with the demystification of acupuncture and examining, using non-invasive methods, how different stimulation modalities (manual needle acupuncture, laserneedle acupuncture and electro acupuncture) affect peripheral and central functions. Laser is also an important instrument for acupuncture. One only needs to mention the treatment of children or of patients with needle phobia. The laserneedle acupuncture, which was examined scientifically for the first time in Graz, represents a new painless acupuncture method for which up to ten laserneedles are glued to the skin, but not stuck into it. This first part of the short review article summarizes some of the peripherally measured effects of acupuncture obtained at the Medical University of Graz within the last 10 years.

scholarly journals Ten Years Evidence-Based High-Tech Acupuncture–A Short Review of Centrally Measured Effects (Part II)

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhard Litscher
Keyword(s):  
Brain Function ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Short Review ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Acupuncture Points ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Acupuncture Research ◽  
Medical University ◽  
First Time

The assessment of acupuncture-induced effects on brain function is crucial. Ultrasound-assisted brain function monitoring and bioelectrical methods as well as near infrared spectroscopic procedures and functional magnetic resonance investigations form the basis for the latest scientific examination methods for acupuncture research. The laserneedle acupuncture, which was examined scientifically for the first time in Graz, represents a new painless and non-invasive acupuncture method. In this way, individual combinations of acupuncture points can be stimulated simultaneously according to traditional Chinese medicine. In the context of double-blind studies, effects in the brain could be demonstrated in a reproducible manner for the first time. This second part of the short review article summarizes some of the centrally measured effects of acupuncture obtained at the Medical University of Graz within the last 10 years.

scholarly journals What is that’s going on here? A multidimensional time concept is foundational to framing for decision making in situations of uncertainty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Raia ◽  
Lezel Legados ◽  
Irina Silacheva ◽  
Jennifer B. Plotkin ◽  
Srikanth Krishnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Life Saving ◽  
Cultural Dominance ◽  
K 12

AbstractSTEM disciplines are the dominant culture in K-12 education. With its study of organs and diseases that afflict patients’ bodies, Western evidence-based medicine is seen and understood in the modern cultural paradigm as a science and as the practice in which a subject, the doctor, acts on an object; the patient’s body—a dominant culture in the patient’s journey. However, with the continually evolving high-technological and medical knowledge, life-saving therapeutic options are life-changing. They can range from changes in the diet, requiring structural and cultural changes in family life, to changes related to the experiences of learning to live tethered to a machine that is partly inside and partly outside one’s body or with somebody else’s heart. In this article, we show how competing needs to personalize care for the patient as a person forcefully emerge in response to evidence-based medicine’s global cultural dominance. We highlight two fundamental issues emerging in decision-making processes: (1) Framing evidence-based knowledge, uncertainties of the course of the disease and options, and (2) working with different, equally important, and often at odds conceptions of time in the care for the Other. Through the longitudinal analysis of moment-to-moment interactions in high-tech medicine encounters of a patient, his family, and the team caring for them, we show how framing and different conceptions of time emerge as issues, are profoundly interconnected, and are addressed by participants to care for a patient confronting existential decisions.

Neurobiology of premature ejaculation - from animal experiments to evidence- based treatment in humans

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S2) ◽  
pp. 2034-2034
Author(s):  
M.D. Waldinger
Keyword(s):  
Premature Ejaculation ◽  
Animal Experiments ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Laboratory Animals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Female Rat ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Behavioral Studies ◽  
Female Wistar Rats ◽  
Lifelong Premature Ejaculation

In the last two decades an increasing number of sexual behavioral studies in laboratory animals has contributed to a better understanding of the neural basis of ejaculatory functioning. In addition, these studies, which mainly involved male and female Wistar rats, elucidated basic mechanisms that underly the psychopharmacology of SSRI-induced ejaculation delay. Notably, a new animal model for premature and retarded ejaculation has been developed. This model has been shown to be of eminent importance for the investigation of ejaculatory disorders. Moreover, it has been proven useful into the investigation of female rat sexual motivation. Translational research translates findings of animal research into human application. Indeed, objective and systematic psychopharmacological research in men with lifelong premature ejaculation yields a remarkable similarity with data that have been found in animals. Sofar, animal research of premature ejaculation remarkably predicts data in men with lifelong PE, on the condition that clinical human research was performed according to evidence based research principles.

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