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 3

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 right amygdala. This was an uncorrected comparison set at with a value of 2.898.


Brain areas	Activation	Side	value	value

Cerebellum 4 and cerebellum 5	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
LING	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
ORBinf	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
Cerebellum 6	ACU > SHAM	B	0.005	2.898
FFG	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
ITG	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
Cerebellum crus 2	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
MTG	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
SFG	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
IFGoperc	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
SMG	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
CUN	ACU > SHAM	R	0.005	2.898
SPG	ACU > SHAM	L	0.005	2.898
ITG	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
Cerebellum crus 2	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
INS	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
STG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
PUT	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
MFG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
IFGoperc	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
HES	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
MTG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
ROL	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
SMG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898
PreCG	SHAM > ACU	B	0.005	2.898
PCL	SHAM > ACU	L	0.005	2.898
PoCG	SHAM > ACU	R	0.005	2.898

LING: lingual gyrus; ORBinf: inferior frontal gyrus (orbital part); FFG: fusiform gyrus; ITG: inferior temporal gyrus; MTG: middle temporal gyrus; SFG: superior frontal gyrus; IFGoperc: inferior frontal gyrus (opercular part); SMG: supramarginal gyrus; CUN: cuneus; SPG: superior parietal gyrus; ITG: inferior temporal gyrus; INS: insula; STG: superior temporal gyrus; PUT: putamen; MFG: medial frontal gyrus; HES: heschl gyrus; ROL: rolandic operculum; PreCG: precentral gyrus; PCL: paracentral lobule; PoCG: postcentral gyrus; L: left; B: bilateral; R: right.