Table 3.
Effect of psychotherapy on hemodynamic responses—voxel-wise whole brain analysis.
| Region | Coordinates | Peak t value | Cluster size | FWE value | Effect | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | ||||||
| All emotions ([“anger”+ “disgust” + “joy” + “neutral”] − “control”) | ||||||||
| No | Region | |||||||
| Anger (“anger” − “control”) | ||||||||
| Left | Parahippocampal gyrus | −25 | 41 | −16 | 5.560 | 11 | 0.998 | p2 > p1 |
| Rightt | Parahippocampal gyrus | 22 | 26 | −16 | 6.130 | 11 | 0.998 | p2 > p1 |
| Left | Putamen | −26 | −11 | 5 | 5.322 | 11 | 0.998 | p2 < p1 |
| joy (“joy” − “control”) | ||||||||
| Left | Inferior temporal gyrus | −53 | −1 | −32 | 6.173 | 12 | 0.960 | p2 > p1 |
We implemented a voxel-wise whole brain analysis to identify brain regions with significant changes of hemodynamic modulation for the contrasts all emotions ([“anger”+ “disgust” + “joy” + “neutral”] − “control”), anger (“anger” − “control”), and joy (“joy” − “control”). (Abbreviations: x, y, and z refer to the Talairach coordinates of the center of mass of the regions; peak t value refers to the t value of the peak voxel in the cluster; cluster size refers to the number of voxels which survived threshold masking at p[uncorrected] ≤ 0.001; FWE value describes the probability, that a cluster of the given size would appear as a false positive result in a contrast of the given smoothness; effect refers to an increase (p2 > p1) or a decrease (p2 < p1) of hemodynamic responses after psychotherapy.)