Electroacupuncture alleviates mechanical allodynia and anxiety‐like behaviors induced by chronic neuropathic pain via regulating rostral anterior cingulate cortex‐dorsal raphe nucleus neural circuit

The role of rACC^Glu -DRN circuit may be different during the progression of chronic neuropathic pain and these changes may be related to the serotoninergic neurons in the DRN. These findings describe a novel rACC^Glu -DRN pathway through which EA exerts analgesic and anxiolytic effects in SNI mice exhibiting anxiety-like behaviors.