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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Aug 7;22(11):2370–2378. doi: 10.1002/oby.20859

Table 3.

Brain regions showing greater activation for high-ED vs. low-ED foods in obese vs. lean women

Modality and region Side Coordinates
k t
x y z
Conjunction of visual and auditory cuesa
    Midbrain/VTA* 0 −12 −8 151 2.54
    Putamen* L −32 −6 −6 122 2.66
    Hippocampus R 28 −12 −22 40 2.44
    Posterior cingulate gyrus L −16 −32 32 36 2.95
    Superior temporal gyrus R 58 −30 12 36 2.36
Visual cuesb
    Superior temporal gyrus* L −44 −36 10 65 4.16
R 58 −34 12 12 3.77
    Putamen* L −26 −6 −6 51 4.80
    OFC R 26 34 −10 17 3.68
Auditory cuesb
    Supramarginal gyrus* L −58 −50 28 46 4.73
    Parahippocampal gyrus L −16 −40 −8 19 4.22
    Brainstem R 14 −30 −32 17 3.86
    Inferior frontal gyrus R 44 8 10 12 3.99

x,y,z = Montreal Neurological Institute coordinates; k = cluster size, i.e. number of voxels within each cluster

a

Significant at p < 0.05 uncorrected testing against conjunction null hypothesis

b

Significant at p < 0.001 uncorrected, k > 10

*

Significant at p< 0.05 corrected (see Methods).