The world's fastest swordsman, Guinness World Record holder, Isao Machii.

What a blast to present our patient-clinician relationship hyperscan data SANS #SANS2024

📣 OUT NOW:
Artificial Intelligence & Acupuncture: A Data-Driven Synergy

This is the 1st paper resulting from the work of the SAR AI & Digital Health Special Interest Group 👏👏👏

📄 Access the paper free during the next 30 days through the (long) link: url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1ruE…

This is incredible.

From Jamie Lane where AirBnBs are fully booked next week.

Great having you here, Liz

📣 'Use of #acupuncture , which was increasingly covered by insurance, increased from 1% in 2002 to 2.2% in 2022'

NIH NCCIH
nccih.nih.gov/research/resea…

Nahin et al., 2024 Use of Complementary Health Approaches Overall and for Pain Management by US Adults
doi:10.1001/jama.2023.26775

Headed to #winterbrain2024 let’s hang out! Come to our Tuesday evening panel on Empathy featuring Weizhe Hong Fadel Zeidan Vitaly Napadow and myself!

📍 The Topological Atlas and Repository for Acupoint Research (TARA) is a 5-year NIH-initiated project which will result in a new comprehensive resource for the acupuncture research & clinician community.

👉 At this point, we need YOUR input:
surveymonkey.com/r/TARAcommunit…

⏳ Feb 16!

Birth of the Topological Atlas and Repository for Acupoint Research
👉 Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine #TurningPoint

acupunctureresearch.org/turning-point#…

'We hope that TARA, working with SAR, will help galvanize the acupuncture community to further our understanding of the physiological basis of acupuncture'

Trying to leave the seminar room in the middle of a talk

Martinos researchers gathered yesterday to say goodbye to the Center's original 7T scanner. Installed 20+ years ago, the scanner was the first-ever ultrahigh-field MR system built on a clinical platform. Thanks for the memories, 7T, and all the amazing science! Mass General Research Institute

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

😳 New pain researcher data presented now at the NIH IPRCC meeting Re: Early stage.

- 50% of NIH K-awardees transition to R01

- 22% Funding rate for R01 Early Stage Investigators

- Average time from terminal degree to first R01: *13 years*

A very nice tribute to a remarkable scientist, Bud Craig nature.com/articles/s4159…

Second MDMA Phase 3 results published! 71.2% remission rate with 23.7 mean reduction in CAPS-5 vs 14.8 for placebo. I'd predict NDA filing around end of year, FDA grants priority review, and approval happens in mid-2024.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Looking forward to meeting everyone at this webinar :)

very nicely written new medical advice column in The Washington Post on acupuncture. washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/…

Excited to be attending OHBM with the #migraine study crew & Vitaly Napadow lab!😊 Check out our ⭐️ RA ali goldstein’s poster on breath-hold induced CVR in migraine at #7Tesla ! Poster #147

Stop by the wonderful Seneca Ellis to learn about peak alpha frequency as a potential biomarker for chronic pain OHBM from Vitaly Napadow lab.

Wonderful work by ali goldstein and the #migraine team from Vitaly Napadow lab. Stop by Ordinary Human Being