Acupuncture Enhances Communication between Cortices with Damaged White Matters in Poststroke Motor Impairment

Table 2

ANOVA results on FC alterations on the 2 × 2 factorial design: stroke patients or healthy controls (intersubject) × pre- or postacupuncture (within-subject).

	SLF-FP		SLFt
		P value		P value
Group of participants	9.121	0.004	2.717	0.107
Acupuncture condition	2.166	0.149	0.451	0.505
Interaction effect	11.407	0.002	0.549	0.463

The main effect for two groups (stroke patients versus healthy controls) and the interaction effect were significant in the FC between brain regions connected by the SLF-FP. In contrast, the FC of brain regions linked by the right SLFt was not significant for the main effects or the interaction effect.