Review Article

Resting-State fMRI in Studies of Acupuncture

Table 2

Research studies on before acupuncture vs. after acupuncture.

StudyMain findings

Zhang et al. [15]ALFF: increased cerebral occipital lobe and middle occipital gyrus
Decreased gyrus rectus of the frontal lobe and posterior lobe
Zhou et al. [16]ALFF: right gyrus subcallosum, postcentral gyrus, inferior frontal gyrus left precuneus, superior temporal gyrus, and middle temporal gyrus
Liu et al. [17]ReHo: cognitive, motor, default network, and limbic system