Publications by authors named "Meng-Chai Mao"
Background: Tui Na (Chinese massage) is a relatively simple, inexpensive, and non-invasive intervention, and has been used to treat stroke patients for many years in China. Tui Na acts on specific parts of the body which are called meridians and acupoints to achieve the role of treating diseases. Yet the underlying neural mechanism associated with Tui Na is not clear due to the lack of detection methods.
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- * The study investigates the effectiveness of combining repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) with Tui Na (Chinese massage) and conventional rehabilitation in improving upper limb motor function in stroke patients.
- * Ninety patients will be randomly divided into two groups to assess various outcomes over four evaluation time points, with ethical approval granted for this randomized controlled trial.
Background: Previous studies have shown that BD patients exhibited impairment when performing a verbal fluency task (VFT) and abnormal prefrontal cortex activation during this task. However, no study has specifically examined whether patients with type II BD demonstrate difficulty in performing VFT and impairments in relevant neural correlates or whether these are related to psychotic symptoms, the present study aimed to examine these issues.
Methods: Forty-nine patients with type II BD (21 patients with psychotic symptoms [BDIIp] and 28 patients without psychotic symptoms [BDIIn]) and 45 matched healthy controls (HCs) participated the study and completed the VFTs, while their brain activity was recorded with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS).