Investigation of acupoint specificity by functional connectivity analysis based on graph theory

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 482, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 95-100

  Ren, Yanshuang ^a,b   Bai, Lijun ^c   Feng, Yuanyuan ^c   Tian, Jie ^c   Li, Kuncheng ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guanganmen Hospital   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Acupoint specificity; Acupuncture; Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI); Graph theory

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CINGULATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77955772171     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.091     Document Type: Article

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