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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2005 Dec 20;120(1-2):69–77. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2005.10.014

Table 3.

Correlations of ASI scores and FPQ scores with activation of peak voxels in functionally defined regions of interest identified in regression and overall contrast analyses

Region of interest Measure
ASI FPQ
Identified in ASI regression
 MPFC .890* (.804) .533**(.203)
Identified in FPQ regression
 Right lateral OFC .583***(.463) .912* (.869)
Identified in overall pain>warm contrast
 Anterior cingulate .336 .610***(.486)
 Posterior cingulate .137 .533**(.603)
 Insula (anterior) .167 .394
 Insula (mid) −.076 .122
 Insula (posterior) −.242 −.173
 Left thalamus −.116 −.083
 Right thalamus .263 .359
*

P<.001;

**

P<.10,

***

P<.05;.

All others not marked, P>.15. ASI, anxiety sensitivity index; FPQ, fear of pain questionnaire. Regions identified in the pain>warmth contrast were selected from those listed in Table 1 (and shown in Fig. 1) as representative of those commonly activated in studies of pain (Peyron et al., 2000). Values in parentheses are correlations partialling out individual differences in pain threshold temperatures.