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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Brain. 2006 Jul 14;129(0 10):2667–2678. doi: 10.1093/brain/awl162

Table 2.

Brain regions with significant metabolic changes with treatment

Brain region Coordinatesa
Z max
x y z
(A) STN DBS
    Metabolic decreases (ON < OFF)
        Cerebellar vermis, lobule Vb,* 10 –54 –22 –2.77
–6 –56 –22 –2.74
        Putamen** 36 18 –6 –3.48
        GPi* –16 14 –6 –2.30
        Prefrontal gyrus, BA 10** –16 60 –6 –3.41
        Precentral gyrus, BA 4** –50 –16 40 –3.39
28 –24 52 –2.28
36 –32 62 –2.50
    Metabolic increases (ON > OFF)
        Ventrolateral thalamus/STN* –10 –14 8 –2.48
        Precuneus, BA 7* 14 –74 32 –2.58
(B) Levodopa infusion
    Metabolic decreases (ON < OFF)
        Cerebellar vermis, lobule 6 – 46 –22 4.05
        Putamen/GP/thalamus** –34 –14 –6 3.83
        Precentral gyrus, BA 4 –16 –28 54 4.67
14 –30 68 3.45
    Metabolic increases (ON > OFF)
        Cerebellar hemisphere, lobule IV* 42 –54 –26 2.68
        Prefrontal gyrus, BA 10, 11* 28 58 10 2.86
        Precuneus, BA 7, 31* 2 –68 26 2.87
a

Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) standard space.

b

According to the atlas of Schmahmann (Schmahmann et al., 2000).

*

P < 0.01

**

P < 0.001 (uncorrected, within hypothesis-testing mask)

P < 0.05 (corrected for multiple non-independent comparisons).