Effect of Acupuncture Stimulation of Hegu (LI4) and Taichong (LR3) on the Resting-State Networks in Alzheimer’s Disease: Beyond the Default Mode Network

Table 1

Characteristics of the patients with AD and HCs.

	AD ()	HCs ()	value
Gender, female/male	7/5	7/5	1.00
Age (year)			0.259
Education (year)			0.178
Course (month)		—	—
MoCA			<0.01
CDR			<0.01
AVLT (immediate)			<0.01
AVLT (short time)			<0.01
AVLT (long time)			<0.01

. AD: Alzheimer’s disease; HCs: healthy controls; MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment; CDR: clinical dementia rating scale; AVLT: auditory verbal learning test; immediate: immediate recall of learning verbal; delayed: delayed recall of learning verbal; recognition: recognition of learning verbal; SD: standard deviation.