ArticleEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2018
Structural Changes Induced by Acupuncture in the Recovering Brain after Ischemic Stroke.
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- Neural effects of acupuncture on stroke patients with motor dysfunction: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- Effect of acupuncture on brain regions modulation of mild cognitive impairment: A meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Pooled it
- Effect of Interactive Dynamic Scalp Acupuncture on Post-Stroke Cognitive Function, Depression, and Anxiety: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2022Trial
- Neurorehabilitation Combining Acupuncture and Conventional Rehabilitation in the Acute Ischemic Stroke: Evidence From Multimodal MRI.Neural plasticity · 2026Article
- Clinical trials and advanced MRI techniques with stem cell therapy for ischemic stroke: present and future perspectives.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Review
- The Effect of Integrative Treatment on Improving Functional Level in Stroke Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Altered cerebellar-cerebral dynamic functional connectivity in patients with pontine stroke: a resting-state fMRI study.Brain imaging and behavior · 2024Review
- Possible Effects of Acupuncture in Poststroke Aphasia.Behavioural neurology · 2023Review
- Structural and functional improvement of amygdala sub-regions in postpartum depression after acupuncture.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- The impact of acupuncture on neuroplasticity after ischemic stroke: a literature review and perspectives.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Review
- Neuroplasticity of Acupuncture for Stroke: An Evidence-Based Review of MRI.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- Progress of Acupuncture Therapy in Diseases Based on Magnetic Resonance Image Studies: A Literature Review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Review
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- Scalp Acupuncture Enhances the Functional Connectivity of Visual and Cognitive-Motor Function Network of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2020Article
- Machine Learning in Neuroimaging: A New Approach to Understand Acupuncture for Neuroplasticity.Neural plasticity · 2020Review
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to observe the grey matter (GM) tissue changes of ischemic stroke patients, to explore the therapy responses and possible mechanism of acupuncture. 21 stroke patients were randomly assigned to receive either acupuncture plus conventional (Group A) or only conventional (Group B) treatments for 4 weeks. All patients in both groups accepted resting-state functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) scan before and after treatment, and the voxel-based morphometry (VBM) analysis was performed to detect the cerebral grey structure changes. The modified Barthel index (MBI) was used to evaluate the therapeutic effect. Compared with the patients in Group B, the patients in Group A exhibited a more significant enhancement of the changes degree of MBI from pre- to post-treatment intervention. VBM analyses found that after treatment the patients in Group A showed extensive changes in GMV. In Group A, the left frontal lobe, precentral gyrus, superior parietal gyrus, anterior cingulate cortex, and middle temporal gyrus significantly increased, and the right frontal gyrus, inferior parietal gyrus, and middle cingulate cortex decreased (
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