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Longitudinal Brain Functional Connectivity Changes of the Cortical Motor-Related Network in Subcortical Stroke Patients with Acupuncture Treatment.
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- Acupuncture versus rehabilitation for post-stroke shoulder-hand syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review: enhancing stroke recovery through complementary interventions-Clinical outcomes and neural activity insights.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy for central post-stroke pain: systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
- Neural Effects of Low-Frequency Acupoint Electrical Stimulation Therapy on Patients With Poststroke Motor Dysfunction: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2026Article
- Magnetic resonance imaging studies on acupuncture therapy in cerebral ischemic stroke: A systematic review.Heliyon · 2024Article
- A Comprehensive Review on the Role of Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Predicting Post-Stroke Motor and Sensory Outcomes.Neurology international · 2024Review
- Fire acupuncture for anti-LGI1 antibody autoimmune encephalitis: a case report.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Evaluation of fMRI activation in post-stroke patients with movement disorders after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation: a scoping review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- Sensorimotor Responses in Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Patients Modulated by Acupuncture at Yanglingquan (GB34): A fMRI Study Using Intersubject Functional Correlation (ISFC) Analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- Ability of an altered functional coupling between resting-state networks to predict behavioral outcomes in subcortical ischemic stroke: A longitudinal study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Aberrant interhemispheric functional reciprocities of the default mode network and motor network in subcortical ischemic stroke patients with motor impairment: A longitudinal study.Frontiers in neurology · 2022Article
- The disrupted topological properties of structural networks showed recovery in ischemic stroke patients: a longitudinal design study.BMC neuroscience · 2021Article
- Dynamic Structural and Functional Reorganizations Following Motor Stroke.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- Neuroplasticity of Acupuncture for Stroke: An Evidence-Based Review of MRI.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- Distinction of High- and Low-Frequency Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on the Functional Reorganization of the Motor Network in Stroke Patients.Neural plasticity · 2021Article
- Neuromodulatory Effect of Sensorimotor Network Functional Connectivity of Temporal Three-Needle Therapy for Ischemic Stroke Patients with Motor Dysfunction: Study Protocol for a Randomized, Patient-Assessor Blind, Controlled, Neuroimaging Trial.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021Article
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- Structural and functional reorganization following unilateral internal capsule infarction contribute to neurological function recovery.Neuroradiology · 2019Article
- Acupuncture Enhances Communication between Cortices with Damaged White Matters in Poststroke Motor Impairment.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Article
- Different Brain Activation after Acupuncture at Combined Acupoints and Single Acupoint in Hypertension Patients: An Rs-fMRI Study Based on ReHo Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2019Article
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Abstract
In clinical practice, the effectiveness of the rehabilitation therapy such as acupuncture combining conventional Western medicine (AG) on stroke people's motor-related brain network and their behaviors has not been systematically studied. In the present study, seventeen adult ischemic patients were collected and divided into two groups: the conventional Western medicine treatment group (CG) and the AG. The neurological deficit scores (NDS) and resting-state functional MRI data were collected before and after treatment. Compared with the CG patients, AG patients exhibited a significant enhancement of the percent changes of NDS from pre- to posttreatment intervention. All patients showed significant changes of functional connectivity (FC) between the pair of cortical motor-related regions. After treatment, both patient groups showed a recovery of brain connectivity to the nearly normal level compared with the controls in these pairs. Moreover, a significant correlation between the percent changes of NDS and the pretreatment FC values of bilateral primary motor cortex (M1) in all patients was found. In conclusion, our results showed that AG therapy can be an effective means for ischemic stroke patients to recover their motor function ability. The FC strengths between bilateral M1 of stroke patients can predict stroke patients' treatment outcome after rehabilitation therapy.
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