Sustained effects of acupuncture stimulation investigated with centrality mapping analysis

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue OCT2016, 2016, Pages

  Long, Xiangyu ^a   Huang, Wenjing ^b,c   Napadow, Vitaly ^d,e   Liang, Fanrong ^c   Pleger, Burkhard ^a   Villringer, Arno ^a,f   Witt, Claudia M ^b,g   Nierhaus, Till ^a,f,h   Pach, Daniel ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e LOGAN COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC   (United States)

^f HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acupuncture; Centrality; Functional connectivity; Pain; Resting state fMRI

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CENTRALITY MAPPING ANALYSIS; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEFAULT MODE NETWORK; DEGREE CENTRALITY MAPPING; DERMATOME; EIGENVECTOR CENTRALITY MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; RESTING STATE FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RESTING STATE NETWORK;

EID: 84992616474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00510     Document Type: Article

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