Vitaly Napadow

Vitaly Napadow is an American neuroscientist and acupuncturist who is a full professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Radiology at Harvard Medical School. He directs the Scott Schoen and Nancy Adams Discovery Center for Recovery from Chronic Pain at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Center for Integrative Pain NeuroImaging at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, and he is a former president of the Society for Acupuncture Research. His neuroimaging research studies how brain circuits shape the experience of chronic pain and how therapies such as acupuncture and mindfulness training affect it. In 2009 he devised a respiratory-gated form of transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation. This entry records what was held and done and is not medical advice.