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The aim of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to examine brain activation in patients with unilateral CP during passive movement with and without simultaneous observation of simple hand movement.

The aim of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to examine and compare brain activation in patients with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) during observation of simple hand movement performed by the paretic and nonparetic hand.

This study aims to elucidate the altered brain activation in patients with aMCI using resting-state functional magnetic resonance.

However, few neuroimaging investigations have examined brain activation in patients with depression and comorbid with preceding generalized anxiety (MDD/GAD).

Thus attention deficits in the NCD-group may play a role in diminishing performance during fMRI tasks that probe working memory and VCA, and the corresponding decrease in brain activation in patients with NCD.

With respect to our second hypothesis, a comparison of brain activation results (Table  2) showed that ACUP indeed evoked different brain activation in patients with PD than in healthy participants.

These results also suggest that the brain activations in patients and controls are consistent with their verbal reports of pain magnitude.

Studies using fMRI have demonstrated etiology-specific changes in regional brain activations in patients with neurological or psychiatric conditions, even when they did not score differently from control individuals in neurocognitive tasks [ 17- 19].

Moreover, acupuncture evoked different brain activations in patients with Parkinson's disease than in healthy participants in our study, stressing the importance of conducting acupuncture studies on both healthy participants as well as patients within the same study, in order to detect acupuncture efficacy.

The results suggest that data-driven fMRI assessments may complement conventional neuroimaging for characterizing pain responses and that enhancement of brain activation in fibromyalgia patients may be particularly relevant in emotion-related regions.

We used fMRI to examine brain activation in 11 patients during a motor task modified from [ 10].