SSpecific cerebral activation following true and sham Waiguan (SJ 5) needling: Functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 5, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 1712-1716

  Huang, Yong ^a   Lai, Xinsheng ^b   Shan, Baoci ^c   Tang, Chunzhi ^b   Yang, Junjun ^b   Zeng, Tongjun ^a   Zhang, Guifeng ^a   Chen, Jiarong ^b   Lu, Yangjia ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^b SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Acupoint specific; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Neural regeneration; Traditional chinese medicine; True sham acupoint; True sham needling

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR SEMILUNAR LOBULE; LEFT CEREBELLUM; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEEDLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; RIGHT CEREBELLUM; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; RIGHT PARIETAL LOBE; SHAM PROCEDURE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; WAIGUAN ACUPOINT;

EID: 78651427229     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2010.22.005     Document Type: Article

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