Research Article

The Effect of Swallowing Action Observation Therapy on Resting fMRI in Stroke Patients with Dysphagia

Table 5

The mfALFF values of these clusters were extracted for every participant and compared between each pair of the three groups in slow-5 band.

MNI coordinatesBrain regionContrast-value value

-24 -75 -54Cerebellum_7b_L (aal)pre vs. con2.8870.0088
pos vs. pre0.34070.7404
pos vs. con2.8960.0086

-33 -9 -45Temporal_Inf_L (aal)pre vs. con2.0970.0483
pos vs. pre0.35550.7296
pos vs. con1.5280.1415

-12 -87 9Calcarine_L (aal)pre vs. con4.865<0.0001
pos vs. pre2.3330.0418
pos vs. con3.7430.0012

42 30 45Frontal_Mid_R (aal)pre vs. con2.5870.0172
pos vs. pre1.0590.3145
pos vs. con1.8740.0749

Cerebellum_7b_L (aal): inferior cerebellum; Temporal_Inf_L (aal): inferior temporal gyrus; Calcarine_L (aal): calcarine fissure and surrounding cortex; Frontal_Mid_R (aal): middle frontal gyrus.