Vitaly Napadow
is director of the Center for Integrative Pain Neuroimaging (CiPNI) and an associate professor at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, both at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical School. He is also co-president of the Society for Acupuncture Research.
Acupuncture has a bad rap in the scientific community, but can modern brain scanning techniques redeem it?