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

Figure 3

Blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) signals in significant brain regions from an amygdala-related functional connectivity analysis comparing real acupuncture (ACU) versus minimal sham- (min SHAM-) treated individuals ( and , resp.). Epoch of treatment lasted 9 min. Results from the conjunction analysis were based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT) group results for acupoints ST 36 and SP 9. The overlapping areas are the putamen, insula, parahippocampus, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and cerebellum. -value scales are located on the bottom of the picture ().