Comprehensive review on sexual dimorphism to improve scalp acupuncture in nervous system disease

• Published in: CNS neuroscience & therapeutics 2024-01, Vol.30 (1), p.e14447-n/a
• Main Authors: Wang, Chaojie, Wang, Jiening, Wu, Xubo, Liu, Tao, Wang, Feng, Zhou, Huanxia, Chen, Chen, Shi, Lijuan, Ma, Lin, Liu, Tiantian, Li, Cancheng
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Acupuncture; Acupuncture Therapy; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Brain research; brain science; Chinese medicine; Females; Gender; Gender differences; Headache; Humans; Hypotheses; innovation; Migraine; Nervous system; Nervous System Diseases; Neurological disorders; Neurosciences; Precision medicine; Review; Scalp; scalp acupuncture; Sex Characteristics; Sex differences; Sex Factors; Sexual dimorphism; SMSA; Stroke; Structure-function relationships; Traditional Chinese medicine
• ISSN: 1755-5930; 1755-5949
• DOI: 10.1111/cns.14447

Background With the development of modern medicine, the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) combined with western medicine began to be produced and applied. Scalp acupuncture (SA) as a Chinese medicine based on neurological theory, has a great advantage compared with TCM in the treatment of nervous system diseases. Method In this paper, we analyze the physiological and pathological manifestations of sexual dimorphism (SD) to illustrate the necessity of SD treatment. In addition, we review the factors that can affect SD and analyze in physiological structure, function, and pathological neurons. Diseases (pathological basis, pathological manifestations, and incidence) and factors leading to gender differences, which to analyze the possibility of gender differences in SA. Result Furthermore, we creatively a new insight of SD‐SA and provide the complete SD treatment cases on the basis of the existing SA in different kinds of diseases including stroke, migraine, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and depression. Conclusion In summary, we believe that it is feasible to improve the clinical effectiveness of SA, which is able to promote the development of SA, and then provides an actionable evidence for the promotion of precision medicine in the future. The evidence of supporting SD‐SA. (A) the SD present in neuro. (B) The factors that promote gender differences. It is worth mentioning that gender differences appear in all organs of the body.