Resting-State fMRI in Studies of Acupuncture

Table 1

Research studies on a single acupuncture acupoint vs. acupoint or nonacupoint.

Acupoints	Main findings
GB40 vs. KI3 [7]	Superior temporal gyrus (STG), auditory network, and anterior insula vs STG and postcentral gyrus
LR3 vs. nonacupoint [8]	Declive, precuneus, postcentral gyrus, supramarginal gyrus, and occipital lobe; post-ACU can lasted for 5 minutes
ST36 vs. nonacupoint [9]	Limbic/paralimbic regions
ST36 vs. nonacupoint [10]	Parahippocampal gyrus and middle temporal- major hubs of the default mode network
LR3 vs. nonacupoint [11]	Network: visual, emotion, and cognition
Back-shu + front-mu vs. single [12]	ReHo: thalamus, the posterior cingulate gyrus, and the precuneus
ST36 vs. nonacupoint [13]	Somatosensory and saliency processing regions
Combinations vs. single [14]	More widely activate areas; new brain areas; and curative effects