Table 3.

 Association of postoperative naming and postoperative VF fMRI activation after left ATLR in patients with and without a clinically significant naming decline

Subjects	Postoperative fMRI activation – neuropsychology score	Z-score	Corrected p-value (FWE)	Coordinates (x, y, z) in MNI space	Anatomic region
Left TLE with clinically significant decline	Postoperative VF activation – naming	3.27	p = 0.022	24, 6, 38	Right MFG
Left TLE with no significant decline	Postoperative VF activation – naming	2.58	p = 0.034	−36, −20, −30	Left HC/PHG
Left TLE with decline > left TLE without decline	Postoperative VF activation – naming	2.86	p = 0.002	44, 12, 52	Right MFG
Left TLE without decline > left TLE with decline	Postoperative VF activation – naming	3.14	p = 0.031	−36, 16, 6	Left MFG

HC, hippocampus; IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; MFG, middle frontal gyrus; MNI space, coordinates related to a standard brain defined by the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI); PHG, parahippocampal gyrus; TLE, temporal lobe epilepsy; VF, verbal fluency.