Comparison of visual cortical activations induced by electro-acupuncture at vision and nonvision-related acupoints

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 458, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 6-10

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Liang, Jimin ^a   Qin, Wei ^a   Liu, Peng ^c   von Deneen, Karen M ^d   Chen, Peng ^e   Bai, Lijun ^a   Tian, Jie ^a,b   Liu, Yijun ^d  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electro acupuncture; fMRI; Functional connectivity; Independent component analysis (ICA); Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349156375     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.04.027     Document Type: Article

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