Including data on greater deactivation of sham
acupuncture points compared to baseline (3d, rest > sham) from 50 subjects, 5 experiments and 52 foci, resulted in significant convergence in pregenual anterior cingulate, subgenual cortex and parahippocampal gyrus.
Not exact matches
One study from Zeng et al. [130]
compared acupuncture at KI3 and KI7 at two different time
points — «open
point time» and «closed
point time» (the open or closed time
point is determined by the Chinese medicine theory «Zi - Wu - Liu - Zhu» — the body's Qi and blood circulation schedule;
acupuncture at the open
point time results in maximum clinical effect and vice versa)[1].
Comparing results on greater activation of sham
acupuncture points than baseline (3c, sham > rest) from 164 subjects, 15 experiments and 200 foci, showed significant convergence in cerebellum, supramarginal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus and thalamus.
According to Deng et al. [22] verum
acupuncture resulted in more activation in insula and operculum
compared to the Streitberger needle placed at a non-
acupuncture point.
Zhang et al. [119]
compared the visual related functional networks between pre - and post - electro -
acupuncture on the visual - related
point GB37 and the non-visual related
point KI8 and described a positive correlation between the pre-post resting states in visual networks for the GB37 group while an anti-correlation for the KI8 group.