Long-duration transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation alters small-world brain functional networks

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1105-1111

  Zhang, Yue ^a   Jiang, Yin ^a   Glielmi, Christopher B ^b   Li, Longchuan ^b   Hu, Xiaoping ^b   Wang, Xiaoying ^c   Han, Jisheng ^a   Zhang, Jue ^a   Cui, Cailian ^a,d   Fang, Jing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY FIRST HOSPITAL   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Brain functional networks; Long duration transcutaneous electric acupoint stimulation (TEAS); Resting state fMRI; Small world

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL GYRUS; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMBIC CORTEX; LTRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC ACUPOINT STIMULATION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESTING STATE NETWORK; SMALL WORLD BRAIN FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84880748471     PISSN: 0730725X     EISSN: 18735894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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