Functional Connectivity Modulation by Acupuncture in Patients with Bell’s Palsy

Figure 2

Demonstration of the overlapped regions which were selected from two intergroup comparison functional connectivity (FC) results of left primary motor cortex. The red areas represented the overlapped areas, which were detected from comparing BP-induced FC changes with acupuncture-induced FC changes in the patients. The overlapped areas were found in the left middle frontal gyrus (B1, B3, B5), left precuneus (B4), and right precuneus (B2). The yellow areas represented the intergroup comparison FC results of areas between the healthy group and the patient group before acupuncture. The blue areas represented the intergroup comparison FC results of areas between post- and preacupuncture in the patient group. The threshold was set to , , corrected using the Monte Carlo method.