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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 8.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 1999 Nov;156(11):1787–1795. doi: 10.1176/ajp.156.11.1787

TABLE 2.

Brain Areas of Increased and Decreased Blood Flow During Evoked Memories of Childhood Sexual Abuse in Women Without PTSD (N=12)

Blood Flow and z Scorea Talairach Coordinate
Brain Region Brodmann’s Area
x y z
Increased blood flow
 4.79 52 12 −18 Right superior temporal (temporal pole) 38
 4.01 10 −8 −4 Hypothalamus
 3.45 2 −26 6 Thalamus (dorsal medial)
 3.44 2 −30 −8 Periacqueductal gray region
 4.10 6 −64 −24 Cerebellar vermis
 3.98 40 −82 −38 Cerebellum
 3.53 54 −44 −50
 3.22 56 −50 −44
 3.81 −8 58 24 Left superior frontal gyrus 9
 3.58 8 48 32 Right superior frontal gyrus 8, 9
 3.39 −30 14 −14 Left inferior frontal gyrus/uncus 47
 3.35 −4 52 −4 Anterior cingulate 32, 10
 3.12 −68 −6 −10 Left middle temporal gyrus 21
Decreased blood flow
 5.56 40 24 34 Right middle frontal gyrus 9, 10
 3.83 26 26 26
 3.29 48 48 18
 3.17 46 46 24
 4.53 −12 0 54 Left middle frontal gyrus 6
 4.30 44 −24 44 Right somatosensory cortex 1, 2, 4
 5.41 −38 −38 30 Left inferior parietal lobule 40
 4.81 −30 −60 40
 2.84 −48 −10 60
 3.51 −38 −38 28
 3.89 −38 −38 −18 Left fusiform gyrus 37
 4.43 56 −34 −18 Right inferior temporal gyrus 19, 20
 4.15 40 −60 −2
 3.42 52 −54 −10
 3.79 −18 −18 8 Left thalamus (ventral, posterior, lateral)
a

z score>3.09, p<0.001. All analyses included 48 observations.