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Frequency-Specific Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Oscillations Associated With Pain Relief From Ankle Acupuncture in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

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العنوان: Frequency-Specific Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Oscillations Associated With Pain Relief From Ankle Acupuncture in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain
المؤلفون: Anfeng Xiang, Meiyu Chen, Chuan Qin, Jun Rong, Can Wang, Xueyong Shen, Sheng Liu
المصدر: Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 15 (2021)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: ankle acupuncture stimulation, immediate analgesia, resting-state brain activity, insular, cerebellum, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: Objective: Recent advances in brain imaging have deepened our knowledge of the neural activity in distinct brain areas associated with acupuncture analgesia. However, there has not been conclusive research into the frequency-specific resting-state functional changes associated with acupuncture analgesia in patients with chronic pain. Here, we aimed to characterize changes across multiple frequencies of resting-state cortical activity associated with ankle acupuncture stimulation (AAS) in patients with chronic low back pain (CLBP) and healthy controls.Methods: Twenty seven patients with CLBP and Twenty five age- and gender-matched healthy volunteers were enrolled in the study. Participants received tactile sham acupuncture (TSA) and AAS, respectively. The whole-brain amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (ALFF) in the range 0.01–0.25 Hz was assessed for changes associated with each intervention. Further, a visual analog scale (VAS) was used to collect subjective measures of pain intensity in patients. Linear mixed-effect modeling (LME) was used to examine the mean ALFF values of AAS and TSA between patients and healthy controls.Results: The ALFF was modulated in the default mode network (an increase in the medial prefrontal cortex, and a decrease in the cerebellum/posterior ingulate/parahippocampus, P < 0.01, corrected) in both patients and controls. Decreased ALFF in the bilateral insular was frequency-dependent. Modulations in the cerebellum and right insular were significantly correlated with VAS pain score after AAS (P < 0.01).Conclusion: Hence, frequency-specific resting-state activity in the cerebellum and insular was correlated to AAS analgesia. Our frequency-specific analysis of ALFF may provide novel insights related to pain relief from acupuncture.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1662-453X
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.786490/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-453X
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.786490
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/a611ccdbb9884e3da3f1f7ec5c257cdc
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.611ccdbb9884e3da3f1f7ec5c257cdc
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1662453X
DOI:10.3389/fnins.2021.786490