The Effects of Acupuncture at Real or Sham Acupoints on the Intrinsic Brain Activity in Mild Cognitive Impairment Patients

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Jia, Baohui ^a,b,c   Liu, Zhishun ^a   Min, Baoquan ^b   Wang, Zhenchang ^d   Zhou, Aihong ^b   Li, Yong ^d   Qiao, Haifa ^a,c   Jia, Jianping ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHINESE MATERIA MEDICA   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE ASSESSMENT SCALE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULMEN; CUNEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PARACENTRAL LOBULE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHAM PROCEDURE; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84929993323     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/529675     Document Type: Article

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