Electroacupuncture for Depression Needs Biomarker-Guided Trials
TL;DR: A 2026 review in Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment argued that electroacupuncture (EA), acupuncture delivered with small electrical stimulation, has depression-related mechanism evidence, but clinical trials need biomarker-guided patient groups, standardized stimulation dose, and objective outcomes before EA can be treated as precision depression care. Key Findings Clinical evidence remains uneven: some randomized trials and …
