Sixty-two cerebral traumatic dementia patients were randomly divided into two groups:acupuncture treatment group (Group A
32 cases) and physical treatment group (Group B
30 cases). The changes of MMSE scores and auditory P300
were observed before and after the treatment. lt were found that the indexes in group A changed significantly (P
<
0. 05
0
.001)
and the indexes in group B didn't change significantly(P
>
0. 1 0.001)
and the indexes in group B didn't change significantly(P
>
0. 1
0
.1).The therapeutic effect in group A was better than that in group B(P
<
0. 001). The results confirrned that the cognitive function of cerebral traurnatic dernentia patients was increased effectively with acupuncture at Houxi and Shenmen