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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2008 May 10;42(2):969–972. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.04.256

Table 1.

Effects in three regions of the pain network for both CG (N=11) and NCG (N=12) in response to pictures of the deceased and grief-related words. Significant activations in one group (p < .005, 10 voxels) were examined and reported for the other group. T and p values are listed for each group separately. Cluster sizes were determined at the threshold of .005, 10 voxels (if the significance did not reach this threshold, cluster sizes were not comparable and therefore not listed). dACC = dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, PAG = periaqueductal gray

Region Group MNI Coordinates (x,y,z) T p-value (voxels)
Grief-related > Neutral (words):
  ACC
NCG −2 34 8 5.12 0.001(140)
CG −2 34 8 2.74 0.02
  Insula
NCG −36 18 18 4.73 0.001(44)
CG ----- ----- -----
  PAG
NCG ----- ----- -----
CG ----- ----- -----
Deceased > Stranger (pictures):
  dACC
NCG −2 24 24 4.17 0.001(309)
CG −2 24 24 1.87 0.05
  Insula
NCG −40 8 −2 4.76 0.001(235)
48 10 0 4.47 0.001(277)
CG −40 8 −2 1.70 0.02
48 10 0 2.31 0.03
  PAG
NCG −10 −18 −16 9.74 0.0001(55)
CG −10 −18 −16 2.37 0.02