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. 2023 Feb 13;28(7):2826–2838. doi: 10.1038/s41380-023-01974-8

Table 2.

Significant clusters and contrasts from post-hoc ALE meta-analyses.

Task type, contrast, or interaction N foci N BD N controls Peak coordinates (MNI) Location Cluster size (k voxels) Peak intensity (Z)
Cognitive tasks (BD > C) 118 660 781

−4, 52, −16

−4, 36, −14

0, 38, 4

−10, 46, −6

Medial Orbitofrontal Cortexb

Ventral Anterior Cingulate Cortexa,c

156

220

5.56

4.6

4.17

3.42

Cognitive tasks (C > BD) 250 816 963 −32, −2, 52 Premotor/Supplementary Motor Cortexa,c 121 5.47
Emotional tasks (BD > C) 451 621 824 No Convergence
Emotional tasks (C > BD) 690 709 896 32, 30, −14 Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortexa,c 125 5.46
Positive valence 334 623 739 No Convergence
Negative valence 706 1127 1220 No Convergence
Mixed valence 436 723 988

−28, −8, −24

−30, −2, −28

−22, −12, −14

Amygdala ext. to Hippocampusb 196

3.77

3.66

3.38

Euthymic BD & Resting-state 230 526 561 No Convergence
Depressed BD & Resting-state 372 1107 1694

6, −52, 32

−6, −54, 30

Posterior Cingulate Cortexb 157

4.62

3.51

Hypo/manic BD & Resting-state 28 52 103 No Convergence

Euthymic BD & 

Cognitive tasks

288 738 1170 −20, −70, 52 Superior Parietal Lobuleb 121 6.21
Depressed BD & Cognitive tasks 220 329 481 No Convergence
Hypo/manic BD & Cognitive tasks 27 163 198 −32, −2, 58 Premotor/Supplementary Motor Cortexa,c 118 5.62
Euthymic BD & Emotional tasks 663 828 945

10, 10, −6

10, 16, 10

Anterior Caudate ext. to Ventral Striatuma 131

4.5

3.65

Depressed BD & Emotional tasks 546 321 504 No Convergence
Hypo/manic BD & Emotional tasks 110 123 135 No Convergence

To avoid double counting, sample sizes (N) correspond to the total number of study participants, not the number of individual experiment participants. No Convergence indicates a null meta-analytic result i.e., no significant clusters were identified.

BD Bipolar Disorder, C Controls, ext. Extended, MNI Montreal Neuroimaging Institute.

aSeen when experiments were pooled.

bSeen both when nested experiments were removed and when experiments were pooled.

cNovel clusters which emerged in the post-hoc meta-analyses and were not observed in the a priori meta-analyses.