Figure 2.
Brain activity modulated by multimodal psychotherapy. Using a voxel-wise whole brain analysis, we found three regions for the contrast “anger”-“control” and one for the contrast “joy”-“control”, which had a significant increase (bilateral parahippocampal gyrus, left inferior frontal cortex) or decrease (left putamen) of hemodynamic modulation after psychotherapy. The p-threshold was set to p[uncorrected] ≤ 0.001; only clusters with a cluster size of more than 10 voxels were taken into account. (Abbreviations: h, p1, and p2 refer to the mean fMRI signal difference of the according contrast, where h indicates data of healthy subjects, p1 indicates data of pre-treatment somatoform patients, and p2 indicates data of post-treatment somatoform patients; error bars indicate the 95%-confidence-interval).
