Exploring the mechanism of the electroacupuncture treating the generalized anxiety disorder using fMRI
- Conditions
- generalized anxiety disorder
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
1. DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety disorder of mental disorders in the United States
2. The 17 item score of Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAMA): 29> score = 7
3. Age 18-70
4. Right handedness
5.Those who have not used anti anxiety drugs (including western medicine and traditional Chinese Medicine) and other psychotropic drugs 2 weeks before treatment, or those who have used but have stopped for 2 weeks
6. Education level above junior high school
1. Bipolar disorder
2. Patients with schizophrenia or other mental disorders
3. Patients with severe depression or serious suicidal tendency
4. Patients with severe medical diseases, tumors or organic diseases of the central nervous system
5. Alcohol or drug addicts
6. Contraindications of magnetic resonance scanning
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method HAMA-17;fMRI;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method HAMD-24;SDS;SAS;