Research Article

Brain Network Response to Acupuncture Stimuli in Experimental Acute Low Back Pain: An fMRI Study

Table 2

fMRI signal changes evoked by ACUP (ACUP (ON status compared with OFF status)) one-sample -test analysis , FDR < 0.05.

BACluster sizesPeak -scorePeak MNI coordinate

Left insula1352−3.51−42−1515
Left M1648−2.56−361010
Left S24336−3.01−37−122
Left frontal eye field866−3.26−153553
Left dlPFC46973.81−393618
Right M163486.1651612
Left PAG44−3.26−3−30−3
Left PHP35−3.020−240
Left thalamus26−2.564−30−5
Right dmPFC843−3.98153345
Right supramarginal gyrus40554.8763−2733
Right S12403.9755−2030
Right supramarginal gyrus4048−3.2854−6039
Right angular gyrus3940−3.0050−6030
Right lateral temporal cortex2134−2.5649−5526
Right pMCC311013.9818−2439
Bilateral SMA792.5412060
Right PHP3546−4.0024−27−18
Right HP 40−3.8925−20−20
Bilateral pACC3234−3.4203321
Left dmPFC2430−3.23152020

FDR: false discovery rate; MNI: Montreal Neurological Institute; M1: primary motor cortex; S2: secondary somatosensory cortex; dlPFC: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, periaqueductal grey (PAG); PHP: parahippocampus; dmPFC: dorsomedial prefrontal cortex; S1: primary somatosensory cortex; pMCC: posterior mid-cingulate cortex; SMA: supplementary motor area; HP: hippocampus; pACC: pregenual anterior cingulate cortex.