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ArticleNeurology and therapy2025

Letter to the Editor Regarding: Effects of Manual Acupuncture Versus Sham Acupuncture in Patients with Post-Stroke Depression: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Benshu Chen, Ziyu Ye, Lihua Wu, Wenbin Fu

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Article in Neurology and therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Benshu Chen *The Second Clinical Medical College, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510405, China.
Ziyu Ye *The First Clinical College of Anhui, University of Chinese Medicine, Anhui, 230031, Hefei, China.
Lihua Wu *Rehabilitation Medicine College, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou, 450000, China.
Wenbin FuDepartment of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Guangzhou, 510120, China. fuwenbin@139.com.

Funding

the "Lingnan Situ Ling"Acupuncture and Moxibustion School Inheritance Studio of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine [2013] No. 233
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Post-stroke depressionRandomized clinical trialSham acupuncture

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PMID39853554
PMCPMC11906924

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