Author: Xiaoding Cao

All editors and authors of this book are members of the Institute of Acupuncture Research at Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University (Former Shanghai Medical University), one of the earliest Institutions in China, which is specialized in research on acupuncture effects and the mechanisms. This Institute is also one of the WHO Collaborating Centers for Traditional Medicine. In the past 50 years, scientists in this Institute have comprehensively studied acupuncture effects on neurological disorders and the underlying mechanisms. This book is the first monograph of this Institute and will summarize the major studies performed in this Institute and extend the informative discussions to all disciplines related to the scope of this book, including the most recent results from this Institute. Some authors are members of neurobiological labs in USA at the same time and the book covers also those studies of other researchers in the view of modern neuroscience.