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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurol. 2014 Mar 28;261(6):1073–1079. doi: 10.1007/s00415-014-7314-y

Table 3.

Regressions of language performance with gray matter atrophy in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease

Anatomic locus (Brodmann area) MNI coordinates
Z score Cluster size (voxels)
x y z
Gray matter atrophy
 ALS < control
  L middle frontal gyrus (9) −32 12 34 3.19 145
  L precentral gyrus (6)* −46 0 44 N/A N/A
  L cingulate gyrus (32) −10 46 10 4.46 226
  L middle frontal gyrus (10) −26 52 4 3.30 307
  L fusiform gyrus (20) −42 −28 −24 3.23 135
  L fusiform gyrus (37) −26 −42 −18 3.98 160
  R cingulate gyrus (32) 20 4 48 3.45 164
  R medial frontal gyrus (10) 2 42 −8 3.18 558
  R middle frontal gyrus (10) 24 56 4 4.62 376
  R middle temporal gyrus (39) 50 −74 20 3.30 241
 PD < control
  L fusiform gyrus (20) −42 −28 −22 5.09 22,854
  L cingulate gyrus (23) −6 −42 22 3.48 521
  L superior frontal gyrus (6) −24 −8 72 3.13 109
  R precuneus (31) 12 −60 12 3.93 384
  R superior frontal gyrus (6) 18 2 68 3.90 1,421
Regression of action verb accuracy with gray matter atrophy
 ALS
  L precentral gyrus (6) −44 2 46 4.20 131
  L cingulate gyrus (24) −10 40 8 3.79 100
  R middle frontal gyrus (10) 30 50 14 3.95 198
*

cluster subpeak in this location