Fig. 2.

A whole-brain exploratory analysis demonstrated that lower subjective social status was associated with reduced gray matter volume only in the bilateral perigenual anterior cingulate cortex (pACC), after cluster-level correction for multiple statistical testing across the entire brain volume (P < 0.05). Illustrating this pACC area is a statistical parametric map of color-scaled t-values overlaid onto left (A) and right (C) sagittal sections and a coronal section (B) of an anatomical template derived from the present sample. Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates in A–C refer to the distance in mm from the midline for sagittal sections (+ = right; – = left) and from the anterior commissure for the coronal section.