Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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Connectivity Study of the Neuromechanism of Acute Acupuncture Needling during fMRI in “Overweight” Subjects

Table 2

Brain regions comparing activations between real acupuncture (ACU) versus minimal sham acupuncture (SHAM). Activations indicate whether ACU was greater than SHAM or SHAM was greater than ACU. Region of interest (ROI) used for the comparisons was the left amygdala. This was an uncorrected comparison set at with a value of 2.898.


Brain areas	Activation	Side	value	value

ORBinf	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
TPOsup	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
ORBmid	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
OLF	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
Cerebellum 3 and cerebellum 6	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
IOG	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
Vermis 3	ACU > SHAM	NA	0.005	2.898
REC	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
ACG	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
MTG	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
ORBsupmed	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
SFG	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
Supraspinal nucleus	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
PUT	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
HIPP	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
LING	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
ITG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
INS	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
ORBinf	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
PARAHIPP	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
TPOsup	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
FFG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
Cerebellum 8	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
CAL	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
THA	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
HES	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
SFG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
MFG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
MOG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
SOG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
ANG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
IPL	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
SPG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
PreCG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
DCG	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898

ORBinf: inferior frontal gyrus (orbital part); TPOsup: temporal pole: superior temporal gyrus; ORBmid: middle frontal gyrus (orbital part); OLF: olfactory cortex; IOG: inferior occipital gyrus; REC: gyrus rectus; ACG: anterior cingulate; MTG: middle temporal gyrus; ORBsupmed: superior frontal gyrus (medial orbital part); SFG: superior frontal gyrus; PUT: putamen; HIPP: hippocampus; LING: lingual gyrus; ITG: inferior temporal gyrus; INS: insula; PARAHIPP: parahippocampus; FFG: fusiform gyrus; CAL: calcarine fissure, THA: thalamus; HES: heschl gyrus; MFG: middle frontal gyrus; MOG: middle occipital gyrus; SOG: superior occipital gyrus; ANG: angular gyrus; IPL: inferior parietal gyrus; SPG: superior parietal gyrus; PreCG: precentral gyrus; DCG: median cingulate; NA: not applicable; L: left; B: bilateral; R: right.