Table 2. Summary of Results for Regional Brain Activation and Amygdala Functional Connectivity in PTSD Relative to Healthy Youth.
Contrast | Effect | Region | BA | Voxels | X | Y | Z | Peak t |
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Regional brain activation | ||||||||
Threat-neutral images | PTSD>healthy | Left dACC | 32, 24, 6 | 565 | −6 | 18 | 38 | 5.01 |
Left PCG | 6, 44 | 455 | −52 | 4 | 10 | 5.79 | ||
Thalamus | — | 273 | −6 | −20 | 16 | 3.92 | ||
Right PCG/STG | 44, 22 | 225 | 52 | 12 | 2 | 4.23 | ||
Age: PTSD<healthy | Right pMC | 6 | 531 | 14 | 16 | 64 | −5.02 | |
Right IPL | 40 | 280 | 46 | −42 | 40 | −4.24 | ||
Left pMC | 6 | 278 | −22 | 0 | 48 | −3.92 | ||
Left dmPFC | 9 | 189 | −4 | 54 | 30 | −4.2 | ||
Functional connectivity (PPI) | ||||||||
Right amygdala seed: threat-neutral images | Age: PTSD>healthy | Right dmPFC | 9 | 82 | 10 | 58 | 34 | 4.18 |
Left amygdala seed: threat-neutral images | PTSD<healthy | Bilateral rACC/dmPFC | 32, 10, 9 | 93 | −6 | 46 | 12 | −4.22 |
Left dmPFC | 9, 10 | 90 | −14 | 58 | 8 | −4.22 | ||
Age: PTSD<healthy | Right vmPFC | 11 | 117 | 8 | 46 | −18 | −4.31 | |
Left vmPFC | 11 | 81 | −8 | 46 | −16 | −3.79 |
Abbreviations: dACC, dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; dmPFC, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex; IPL, inferior parietal lobule; MFG, middle frontal gyrus; PCG, precentral gyrus; pMC, premotor cortex; PPI, psychophysiological interaction; rACC, rostral anterior cingulate cortex; STG, superior temporal gyrus; vmPFC, ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Peak coordinates (X, Y, Z) are in MNI space, LPI orientation. All contrasts were PTSD minus healthy; thus, a positive t-statistic indicates PTSD>healthy. No group by sex effects were observed in any analysis.