http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8081 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/><td align="right"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&amp;cmd=Link&amp;LinkName=pubmed_pubmed&amp;from_uid=29230621">Related Articles</a></td></tr></table> <p><b>Electroacupuncture stimulation of language-implicated acupoint Tongli (HT 5) in healthy subjects: An fMRI evaluation study.</b></p> <p>Chin J Integr Med. 2017 Dec 11;:</p> <p>Authors: Li LL, Liu XW, Wu F, Tong DC, Ye LP, Tao HX, Liu P, Qiu YH, Yang WZ</p> <p>Abstract<br/> OBJECTIVE: To explore brain activations associated with electroacupuncture simulation at Tongli (HT 5) and its comparison with brain activations during picture-naming task.<br/> METHODS: Twenty healthy subjects were enrolled in this study. Half of them received electroacupuncture stimulation at HT 5 (ACUP group) and the other half of them received stimulation at a nonmeridian sham acupoint (SHAM group). All subjects performed picture-naming task. Each subject finished two runs of functional magnetic resonance imaging examinations in one session and picture-naming task was performed before electroacupuncture stimulation. Subjective brain activations were obtained using generalized linear model and inter-group analyses were performed after that.<br/> RESULTS: The electroacupuncture stimulation at HT 5 induced significant brain activations in both the anterior and posterior language regions, including the left inferior frontal gyrus, which was in consistent with activations induced during picture-naming task. Group analysis showed a tendency of increased activation of ACUP group in left inferior frontal gyrus compared with SHAM group (P&lt;0.05 FDR corrected).<br/> CONCLUSIONS: Electroacupuncture treatment at the acupoint HT 5 has modulation effect on typical language-implicated brain regions in healthy subjects, which provides supporting evidence for beneficial effects of needling at HT 5 for recovery of language function in aphasia.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 29230621 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Fri, 01 May 2026 19:23:03 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator