Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Cerebral Activity Changes in Different Traditional Chinese Medicine Patterns of Psychogenic Erectile Dysfunction Patients

Table 4

Comparison between psychogenic ED patients with liver-qi stagnation and spleen deficiency pattern and kidney-yang deficiency pattern: resting brain activity.


Regions	Sign	Side	Talairach			value	BA
Regions	Sign	Side				value	BA

Brainstem	↑	R	8	−19	7	3.21	—
Brainstem	↑	L	−7	−23	−10	3.13	—
Cerebellum	↑	R	14	−51	−31	3.54	—
Cerebellum	↑	L	−14	−66	−22	4.82	—
Hippocampus	↑	R	22	−30	−4	3.48	BA27
Hippocampus	↑	L	−31	−35	4	3.59	BA37
Insula	↑	R	39	−7	17	3.16	BA48
Thalamus	↑	R	10	−21	1	3.07	—
Paracentral lobule	↑	R	8	−33	53	3.13	BA4
MCC	↑	R	2	−15	48	2.88	BA23
Superior temporal gyrus	↑	R	57	−33	11	3.16	BA22
Inferior temporal gyrus	↑	R	59	−42	−15	4	BA20
Middle temporal gyrus	↑	L	−43	−50	20	3.4	BA39
Putamen	↓	R	24	13	−2	−2.94	—
Putamen	↓	L	−22	18	3	−3.61	—
Medial frontal gyrus	↓	R	13	57	25	−2.58	BA10
	↓	R	8	29	54	−3.48	BA8
	↓	L	−1	41	30	−2.64	BA32
Middle frontal gyrus	↓	L	−35	49	11	−4.47	BA10
Supplementary motor area	↓	L	−4	17	46	−3.59	BA6
OFC	↓	R	8	51	−4	−3.02	BA10
ACC	↓	R	11	24	29	−2.59	BA23
PCC	↓	R	4	−49	26	−2.72	BA30
Middle temporal gyrus	↓	R	51	−39	2	−3.46	BA21
Precuneus	↓	R	8	−64	33	−3.95	—
Precuneus	↓	L	−3	−68	37	−2.99	BA7

“Sign” indicates whether the structure showed a signal increase or decrease. “↑/↓”: increase/decrease. R: right; L: left; BA: Brodmann area; OFC: orbitofrontal cortex; ACC: anterior cingulate cortex; MCC: middle cingulate cortex; PCC: posterior cingulate cortex.
, a minimal cluster size of 50 voxels.