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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2011 Oct 25;36(5):638–647. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2011.204

Table 3.

Regions reaching significance for the between-group analysis (PWS vs. HWC) contrast between food and non-food categories.

Condition Contrast Region of Interest Hemisphere Voxels x y z1 Z-score Uncorrected
p-value2
Voxel-
level
PFWE-corr3
Pre-meal PWS > HWC
Hypothalamus L 10 −6 −9 −3 3.41 0.000 0.011
Amygdala R
L
47
34
26
−20
−4
−9
−21
−13
3.38
3.16
0.000
0.001
0.026
0.047
Hippocampus L 27 −14 −34 0 3.02 0.001 0.082
mPFC L 33 −9 44 −15 2.89 0.002 0.151

HWC > PWS
none

Post-meal PWS > HWC
Hypothalamus R 15 2 −9 −8 3.03 0.001 0.029
Amygdala R 19 14 −9 −13 2.59 0.005 0.088
Hippocampus R 43 17 −15 −16 3.56 0.000 0.031

HWC > PWS
none
1

Coordinates are presented in Talairach space

2

Voxel-wise Z-score significance level p<0.05 uncorrected for multiple comparisons within a hypothesized ROI; ROIs listed represent regions of significantly activated clusters within the a priori hypothesized ROI

3

FWE rate (family-wise error rate) used for SVC (small volume correction): Voxel-level significance level (FWE-corrected within the search volume of interest)