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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 3.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2009 Apr 15;45(3):672–678. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2008.12.061

Table 1.

Regions of increased gray matter in meditators (local approach)

Region Cluster Size
(# of voxels)
Significance
(p)
MNI coordinates
(x; y; z)
Without co-varying for age
      Right Orbito-frontal Cortex 1668 0.04* 28; 41; −3
      Left Inferior Temporal Lobe 230 0.0005+ −45; −8; −28
      Right Thalamus 150 0.0005+ 18; −24; 11

When co-varying for age
      Right Orbito-frontal Cortex 745 0.0001+ 28; 41; −3
      Left Inferior Temporal Lobe 203 0.0003+ −45; −8; −28
      Right Thalamus 549 0.0003+ 21; −22; 14
      Left Paracentral Lobe 175 0.0004+ −12; −9; 54
      Right Paracentral Lobe 192 0.0005+ 22; −23; 48
*

Corrected for multiple comparisons using family-wise error (FWE) and small volume corrections

+

Uncorrected for multiple comparisons