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. 2009 Sep 10;20(5):1254–1262. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhp189

Table 2.

Regions of brain activation at baseline

Val/Val
Val/Met
Brain region Vol Mean z x, y, z Vol Mean z x, y, z
Left primary sensorimotor cortex, premotor cortex, SMA 13 134 6.34 −30, −12, 68 5095 4.24 −8, −16, 64
Left cerebellum 1701 5.76 −30, −62, −28 487 4.6 −34, −54, −38
Right cerebellum 3645 6 24, −50, −30 694 4.12 22, −56, −32
Right inferior parietal lobule 905 4.3 56, −42, 30 391 4.11 64, −36, 30
Left thalamus, ventral posteromedial nucleus 96 4.02 −14, −20, 6
Right thalamus, ventrolateral nucleus 695 5.64 14, −14, 4
Left striatum 448 5.5 −26, −2, 6
Right striatum 311 4.34 20, 4, 4
Right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex 862 4.35 38, 40, 30
Left inferior parietal lobule 556 4.23 −34, −68, 54
Right motor cortex 117 3.79 50, −4, 50
Left cingulate motor area 43 3.59 −8, −24, 50
Left superior parietal lobule 118 3.28 −28, −48, 62
Left midbrain 117 3.54 −8, −14, −18

Note: Vol = volume of cluster, reported in voxels (8 mm3 each); mean z = mean z-score for the peak voxel within each cluster; x, y, z are reported in MNI coordinates. Results are the regions of significant activation in each group, in the whole-brain analysis, from separate 1-sample t-tests performed on each genotype group at P < 0.001, uncorrected for multiple comparisons, at baseline. In addition to above, note that the Val/Val group also showed significant activation in left superior temporal gyrus, right middle temporal gyrus, and the left occipital lobe, whereas the Val/Met group also showed significant activation in bilateral superior temporal gyri.