Electroacupuncture (EA) and the EEG: An unfinished personal journey, 2001-2022. From simple hypothesis to artificial intelligence (AI)

We have not fully confirmed our hypothesis of a frequency-following response, but have not ruled it out either, particularly for low frequency (2.5 Hz) TEAS. It is also possible that volume conduction may play a greater role in high frequency stimulation. ... Research can be fun as well as painstaking and obsessive, as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, but in my experience the road to results may not be straightforward, and the journey is unlikely to go exactly to plan. Indeed, as in life, sometimes it is the unpredictable that can tumble you into new, creative directions. You certainly don’t have to know everything when you start, but it’s good to know people who do know more than you and are willing to share or trade that knowledge. In fact, research of the kind I’ve been talking about is necessarily collaborative: it may not be what you know, but who you get to know on the journey that is important.