Does Acupuncture Therapy Alter Activation of Neural Pathway for Pain Perception in Irritable Bowel Syndrome?: A Comparative Study of True and Sham Acupuncture Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Financial support: This study was supported by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant number 1-U19-AT003266-01 (PI: Brian Berman, University of Maryland Baltimore), research funds of Department of Medicine & Therapeutics and Li Ka Shing Insitute of Health Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Conflicts of interest: None.