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 |
Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) standard space.
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).