Table 5.
Functional changes in nonfluent PPA patients
| Contrast and brain region | MNI coordinates |
Volume (mm3) | Max t | p | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||
| Modulated by syntactic complexity less in nonfluent PPA than in controls | ||||||
| Left dorsal posterior IFG and IFS | −44 | 21 | 25 | 1680 | 4.03 | 0.014† |
| Right dorsal posterior IFG and IFS | 47 | 26 | 16 | 1336 | 5.87 | 0.027† |
| Modulated by reaction time less in nonfluent PPA than in controls | ||||||
| Left IFG/S and precentral gyrus | −39 | 5 | 38 | 4072 | 4.07 | 0.007 |
| Activated relative to rest more in nonfluent PPA than in controls | ||||||
| Left anterior IFG (pars triangularis and orbitalis) | −46 | 25 | 6 | 5664 | 6.17 | 0.003 |
| Activated more in nonfluent PPA than controls, accuracy and reaction time matched | ||||||
| Left anterior IFG (pars triangularis and orbitalis) | −48 | 25 | 8 | 2560 | 6.34 | 0.045 |
†Search volume restricted to the set of regions activated in normal controls.