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  "abstract": "Abnormal cognitive or consciousness function may constitute a core clinical manifestation of a disease, or may serve as a functional component in the formation and maintenance of other symptoms. This article proposes Cognitive–Consciousness Acupuncture (CCA), which is built on traditional Chinese acupuncture and integrates neuroscience, cognitive science, and consciousness science. Using the neural–cognitive–consciousness (NCC) dynamic whole as its functional framework, CCA establishes three treatment entries: acupuncture, cognition, and consciousness. The core of CCA is not the simple combination of three therapies, but the organization of treatment entries, targets, components, and sequencing according to disease-related functional processes and their interrelationships, and the testing of whether cross-domain propagation, state dependence, inter-treatment interaction, and synergy exist among different entries. Building on the original framework, this article makes four further contributions. First, it distinguishes four conceptual levels: treatment entry, treatment target, treatment component, and functional state. Second, it provides a minimal operational definition, inclusion and exclusion conditions, and fidelity requirements for the consciousness entry and for Instant Conscious Command Intervention (ICCI). Third, it translates the four mechanism hypotheses into testable predictions and statistical criteria. Fourth, it proposes a staged research pathway ordered as standardization, cross-domain effects, state dependence, interaction and sequencing, and synergy. At present, CCA should be regarded as an acupuncture treatment system with a defined functional framework and testable mechanistic hypotheses, rather than as an already validated efficacy model.",
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      "name": "Fangming Xu",
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  "published": "2026-10-17",
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  "title": "Cognitive–Consciousness Acupuncture (CCA): A Three-Entry Functional Framework, Operational Boundaries, and a Staged Validation Protocol",
  "title_text": "Cognitive–Consciousness Acupuncture (CCA): A Three-Entry Functional Framework, Operational Boundaries, and a Staged Validation Protocol",
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