Electro-acupuncture (EA) as an adjunct therapy to methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in heroin addiction: A study of 2D EEG power spectral topography and Morlet wavelet

Author

Shiman, F. ; Molaei, F. ; Oladazimi, M. ; Rashid, Rozeha A. ; Habil, H. ; Ibrahim, Fatimah

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. of Malaya (UM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

922

Lastpage

926

Abstract

The present study investigates the efficiency of electro acupuncture (EA) as an adjunct therapy to methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in heroin dependents. Time-frequency analysis, based on Morlet wavelet transform together with 2D spectral power topography were applied to demonstrate different brain dynamics in subjects being acupunctured as compared to controls. A significant decrease of delta activity in right hemisphere together with an increase of alpha activity in central areas was observed in subjects who underwent acupuncture which may indicate the modulatory effects of electro-acupuncture as a treatment to improve the conditions of opioid dependency.

Keywords

electroencephalography; organic compounds; patient treatment; time-frequency analysis; wavelet transforms; 2D EEG power spectral topography; MMT; Morlet wavelet transform; adjunct therapy; alpha activity; brain dynamics; delta activity; electro-acupuncture; heroin addiction; methadone maintenance treatment; patient treatment; time-frequency analysis; 2D power spectral topography; Morlet wavelet; electro acupuncture (EA); methadone maintenance treatment (MMT);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 2012 IEEE EMBS Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1664-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECBES.2012.6498203

Filename

6498203