Effect of acupuncture given at the HT 7, ST 36, ST 40 and KI 3 acupoints on various parts of the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients

Acupuncture and Electro-Therapeutics Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 9-17

  Zhou, Youlong ^a   Jia, Jianping ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Alzheimer's disease; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Mechanism

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MEMORY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 46249103251     PISSN: 03601293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3727/036012908803861186     Document Type: Article

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