Neurobiological Foundations of Acupuncture: The Relevance and Future Prospect Based on Neuroimaging Evidence
Figure 1
Representative brain areas induced by acupuncture at ST36 for different epochs of multiblock design paradigm (, uncorrected). The kinetics of acupuncture was complex and longer acting as a function of time, rather than conforming to simple “on-off” variations predicated by the block-based GLM analysis. Abbreviations: Amy: amygdala; Hipp: hippocampus; PH: parahippocampus; pACC: pregenual anterior cingulate cortex; dACC: dorsal cingulate cortex; AI: anterior insula; PI: posterior insula; SII: secondary somatosensory cortex; Hyp: hypothalamus; PAG: periaqueductal gray; SN: substantia nigra (adapted from [31]).