Table 2.
Significant correlations, between maternal sensitivity and BOLD activations when mothers see scenes of emotional (menacing and prosocial combined) vs. neutral adult male–female interactions, corrected IPV-PTSD symptom severity.
| Cluster size | Peak voxel t | Peak voxel p | MNI coordinates | Regions comprised in this cluster | Partial correlations for the overall cluster | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | For the whole sample | Post-hoc tests | |||||
| Within IPV-PTSD | Within HC | ||||||||
| NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS OF BOLD ACTIVITY WITH MATERNAL SENSITIVITY | |||||||||
| 496 | 4.23 | <0.001 | 42 | 2 | 28 | Right PrcG, Mid cingulate, Right dlPFC | r = −0.556, p < 0.001 | r = −0.339, p = 0.199 | r = −0.620, p = 0.004 |
| 32 | 3.29 | 0.001 | −45 | 8 | 25 | Left dlPFC | r = −0.421, p = 0.004 | r = −0.164, p = 0.543 | r = −0.566, p = 0.009 |
| 27 | 3.19 | 0.001 | −27 | 5 | 58 | Left dlPFC | r = −0.437, p = 0.003 | r = −0.160, p = 0.544 | r = −0.491, p = 0.028 |
| 41 | 3.25 | 0.001 | −39 | −10 | 43 | Left PrcG, Mid cingulate | r = −0.464, p = 0.002 | r = −0.319, p = 0.229 | r = −0.560, p = 0.010 |
| 35 | 3.17 | 0.001 | 18 | −70 | 52 | Right PrcG | r = −0.463, p = 0.002 | r = −0.021 p = −0.540 | r = −0.540, p = 0.014 |
dlPFC, dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex; HC, healthy controls; IPV-PTSD, interpersonal violence related post traumatic stress disorder; PrcG, Precentral Gyrus.