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Effect of Acupuncture on Functional Connectivity of Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Bell's Palsy Patients with Different Clinical Duration1.64 MB
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Journal article
Effect of Acupuncture on Functional Connectivity of Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Bell's Palsy Patients with Different Clinical Duration
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol.2015, pp.1-7
2015
PMCID: PMC4487273
PMID: 26161125
Abstract
Acupuncture is widely used in the treatment of Bell's palsy (BP) in many countries, but its underlying physiological mechanism remained controversial. In order to explore the potential mechanism, changes of functional connectivity (FC) of anterior cingulate gyrus (ACC) were investigated. We collected 20 healthy (control group) participants and 28 BP patients with different clinical duration accepted resting state functional MRI (rfMRI) scans before and after acupuncture, respectively. The FC of ACC before and after acupuncture was compared with paired t-test and the detailed results are presented in the paper. Our results showed that effects of the acupuncture on FC were closely related to clinical duration in patients with BP, which suggested that brain response to acupuncture was closely connected with the status of brain functional connectivity and implied that acupuncture plays a homeostatic role in the BP treatment.
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- Title
- Effect of Acupuncture on Functional Connectivity of Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Bell's Palsy Patients with Different Clinical Duration
- Authors
- Hongli Wu (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineHongxing Kan (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineChuanfu Li (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineKyoungok Park (Author) - Kyung Hee UniversityYifang Zhu (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineAbdalla Z Mohamed (Author) - Kyung Hee UniversityChunsheng Xu (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineYuanyuan Wu (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineWei Zhang (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese MedicineJun Yang (Author) - Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Publication details
- Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol.2015, pp.1-7
- Publisher
- Hindawi Limited
- Date published
- 2015
- DOI
- 10.1155/2015/646872
- ISSN
- 1741-4288; 1741-427X
- PMID
- 26161125; PMC4487273
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2015 Hongli Wu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Thompson Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99522404902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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