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Activation likelihood estimation (ALE) was used to perform a meta-analysis of the brain regions with spontaneous brain activity changes in LDH patients compared with healthy controls (HCs).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>A total of 11 studies were included, including 7ALFF, 2fALFF, and 2ReHo studies, with a total of 269 LDH patients and 277 HCs. Combined with the data from the ALFF\/fALFF and ReHo studies, the meta-analysis results showed that compared with HCs, LDH patients had increased spontaneous brain activity in the right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), left anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and the right anterior lobe of the cerebellum, while they had decreased spontaneous brain activity in the left superior frontal gyrus (SFG). Meta-analysis using ALFF\/fALFF data alone showed that compared with HCs, LDH patients had increased spontaneous brain activity in the right MFG and left ACC, but no decrease in spontaneous brain activity was found.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this paper, through the ALE Meta-analysis method, based on the data of reported rs-fMRI whole brain studies, we found that LDH patients had spontaneous brain activity changes in the right middle frontal gyrus, left anterior cingulate gyrus, right anterior cerebellar lobe and left superior frontal gyrus. However, it is still difficult to assess whether these results are specific and unique to patients with LDH. Further neuroimaging studies are needed to compare the effects of LDH and other chronic pain diseases on the spontaneous brain activity of patients. Furthermore, the lateralization results presented in our study also require further LDH-related pain side-specific grouping study to clarify this causation.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Systematic review registration<\/jats:title><jats:p>PROSPERO, identifier CRD42022375513.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnins.2024.1349512","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,6]],"date-time":"2024-02-06T04:30:44Z","timestamp":1707193844000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Altered spontaneous brain activity in lumbar disc herniation patients: insights from an ALE meta-analysis of neuroimaging data"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Zhiqiang","family":"Qiu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiangkai","family":"Zhong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiming","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiran","family":"Shi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Libing","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huiling","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Xiaoxue","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"463","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ejpain.2004.11.001","article-title":"Human brain mechanisms of pain perception and regulation in health and disease","volume":"9","author":"Apkarian","year":"2005","journal-title":"European J. pain (London, England)"},{"key":"ref2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"2167","DOI":"10.1097\/j.pain.0000000000001904","article-title":"Brain gray matter abnormalities in osteoarthritis pain: a cross-sectional evaluation","volume":"161","author":"Barroso","year":"2020","journal-title":"Pain"},{"key":"ref3","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"417","DOI":"10.1093\/scan\/nsp053","article-title":"The principled control of false positives in neuroimaging","volume":"4","author":"Bennett","year":"2009","journal-title":"Soc. 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