Functional Connectivity Modulation by Acupuncture in Patients with Bell's Palsy
| Autor: | Sheng Hu, Qiuju Xue, Bensheng Qiu, Jun Yang, Xiaoxuan He, Chunsheng Xu, Yunpeng Bian, Hongxing Kan, Chuanfu Li |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Article Subject 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Physical medicine and rehabilitation Unilateral facial paralysis Healthy volunteers Bell's palsy Acupuncture medicine In patient Palsy medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Functional connectivity lcsh:Other systems of medicine medicine.disease lcsh:RZ201-999 030104 developmental biology Complementary and alternative medicine Physical therapy Functional magnetic resonance imaging business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine : eCAM Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Vol 2016 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 1741-4288 1741-427X |
| Popis: | Bell’s palsy (BP), an acute unilateral facial paralysis, is frequently treated with acupuncture in many countries. However, the mechanism of treatment is not clear so far. In order to explore the potential mechanism, 22 healthy volunteers and 17 BP patients with different clinical duration were recruited. The resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging scans were conducted before and after acupuncture at LI4 (Hegu), respectively. By comparing BP-induced functional connectivity (FC) changes with acupuncture-induced FC changes in the patients, the abnormal increased FC that could be reduced by acupuncture was selected. The FC strength of the selected FC at various stages was analyzed subsequently. Our results show that FC modulation of acupuncture is specific and consistent with the tendency of recovery. Therefore, we propose that FC modulation by acupuncture may be beneficial to recovery from the disease. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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