For an eight - week period, participants
received gabapentin (900 mg) daily, gabapentin placebo daily,
electroacupuncture (twice per week for two weeks, then once weekly), or «sham»
electroacupuncture, which involves no actual needle penetration or electrical current.
In the first study, patients suffering from depression
received 5 weeks of therapy with either
electroacupuncture or the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline hydrochloride.