Table 5.
Gray matter differences among PNS patients, non-PNS patients, and healthy controls using voxel-based morphometry.
| Cluster size | p-value (FWE) | t-value | MNI coordinates |
Side | Region or structure (BA) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| NON-PNS > PNS | |||||||
| 1802 | 0.004 | 4.96 | 3 | 54 | −12 | Right | Medial–orbital frontal gyrus (BA 11) |
| 4.39 | 17 | 51 | −5 | Right | Medial–orbital frontal gyrus (BA 10) | ||
| 3.80 | 14 | 41 | −15 | Right | Inferior frontal gyrus (BA 11) | ||
| 926 | 0.05 | 4.94 | 35 | −19 | −30 | Right | Parahippocampal gyrus (BA 36) |
| 4.21 | 39 | −33 | −17 | Right | Fusiform gyrus (BA 20) | ||
| PNS > NON-PNS | |||||||
| No significant differences | |||||||
| CONTROL > PNS | |||||||
| 2322 | 0.002 | 4.93 | 35 | −16 | −30 | Right | Parahippocampal gyrus (BA 36) |
| 4.64 | 39 | −31 | −17 | Right | Fusiform gyrus (BA 20) | ||
| 4.24 | 50 | −28 | 4 | Right | Superior temporal gyrus (BA 22) | ||
| PNS > CONTROL | |||||||
| No significant differences | |||||||
| CONTROL > NON-PNS | |||||||
| No significant differences | |||||||
| NON-PNS > CONTROL | |||||||
| No significant differences | |||||||
MNI coordinates represent the peak voxels in each cluster where x, y, and z indicate the distance measured in millimeters from the anterior commissure in the sagittal, coronal, and axial planes, respectively. BA represents the Brodmann Area for each region or structure.