Table 3.
The brain regions where gray matter volume was positively correlated with the masticatory performance index.
| Brain regiona | Side | Cluster size (voxels) | Z score | P value | MNI coordinates |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| Premotor cortex | R | 81 | 4.0 | <0.001 | 24 | −7 | 66 |
| Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex | L | 37 | 3.9 | <0.001 | −24 | 21 | 51 |
| Cuneus | R | 36 | 3.7 | <0.001 | 8 | −75 | 23 |
| Insula | L | 27 | 3.7 | <0.001 | −45 | −1 | 9 |
| Inferior temporal gyrus | R | 41 | 3.6 | <0.001 | 35 | −1 | −44 |
| Precentral gyrus | R | 27 | 3.3 | <0.001 | 47 | 0 | 48 |
aThe labels of brain regions were surveyed using the Harvard-Oxford cortical and subcortical structural atlases and the Jülich histological atlas of FSLView v3.1 (http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslview).