Table 2.
Cerebral activations of female participants, during viewing of appetitive cigarette images (relative to neutral images) and during the follicular and luteal menstrual cycle phases. R = right; L = left; BA = Brodmann area; P value is uncorrected at 0.001.
| Brain region | R/L | BA | MNI coordinates | Z-scores | Voxels | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| Follicular phase | |||||||
| Angular |
R | 39 | 49 | −66 | 32 | 4.62 | 87 |
| Posterior cingulate | L | 31 | −4 | −49 | 32 | 3.98 | 241 |
| Anterior cingulate | R | 24 | 4 | 35 | −7 | 3.45 | 77 |
| Inferior temporal | R | 19 | 46 | −70 | −4 | 3.40 | 21* |
| Precuneus | L | 29 | −7 | −49 | 10 | 3.29 | 22* |
| Angular | L | 39 | −49 | −66 | 38 | 3.21 | 50 |
| Medial superior frontal | L | 8 | −4 | 46 | 32 | 3.20 | 33 |
| Midcingulum | L | 31 | 0 | −28 | 42 | 3.04 | 21* |
| Luteal phase | |||||||
| Hippocampus | R | — | 42 | −35 | −10 | 3.36 | 15* |
*These results are no longer significant after applying the cluster threshold as determined by Monte Carlo simulation.