Brain areas involved in acupuncture treatment on functional dyspepsia patients: A PET-CT study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 456, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-10

  Zeng, Fang ^a   Song, Wen Zhong ^b   Liu, Xu Guang ^a   Xie, Hong Jun ^b   Tang, Yong ^a   Shan, Bao Ci ^c   Liu, Zhao Hui ^b   Yu, Shu Guang ^a   Liang, Fan Rong ^a  

^a CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b SICHUAN PROVINCIAL PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Brain image; Functional Dyspepsia

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DYSPEPSIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749086147     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.080     Document Type: Article

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