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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009 Jan 9;34(5):694–704. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.11.011

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Medial temporal lobe BOLD activity correlations with derived cortisol index for each experimental condition. (I) Statistical parametric map (puncorrected < 0.001; overlaid onto T1 canonical axial sections z = −21 to z = −9) showing positive (yellow) and negative (blue) correlations in BOLD activity between the WTC (vs. SCR) contrast and the derived diurnal cortisol index. Note the significant negative correlations in bilateral amygdala and hippocampus. (II) Effect size plots show the correlation with the diurnal cortisol index for each medial temporal lobe ROI maximum‡ given for each experimental condition (vs. SCR). *Conditions, which differ significantly (pcorrected < 0.05) from the WTC condition in that ROI. Note that in the right amygdala, the negative correlation with derived cortisol index is significantly stronger for WTC than for all other conditions; this general pattern holds true in other medial temporal lobe ROI’s seen above. ‡Peak voxel within [R or L] amygdala proper was plotted, rather than another local maxima [coordinates] technically within the ROI, but located in the amygdale/hippocampal border zone.