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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2016 Oct;157(10):2217–2225. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000633

Table 3.

Associations between brain responses to evoked pain (BOLD), MOR availability (MOR BP), and McGill affective/ sensory pain ratios. Bolded regions were significantly associated with clinical pain.

Brain region MNI co-ordinates (X Y Z) Affective/Sensory Pain Ratio
r P
Whole Brain
MFG (BOLD) −12, 2, 62 −.518 .027
MOR BP −.629 .005
PCC (BOLD) −8, −44, 40 −.593 .010
MOR BP −.497 .036
pgACC/MFG (BOLD) −16, 40, 38 −.581 .012
MOR BP −.571 .013
Precentral (BOLD) 32, −4, 34 −.436 .070
MOR BP −.507 .032
DLPFC (BOLD) −42, 8, 28 −.331 .179
MOR BP −.246 .324
MTG (BOLD) −58, −58, 4 −.408 .093
MOR BP −.410 .091
sgACC (BOLD) 8, 38, −2 −.754 <.001
MOR BP −.545 .019
NAc (BOLD) −18, 6, −12 −.425 .079
MOR BP −.301 .224
Cerebellum (BOLD) 28, −58, −40 −.294 .236
MOR BP −.318 .198
ROI
ACC (BOLD) −12, 38, 28 −.378 .122
MOR BP −.552 .018
NAc (BOLD) −18, 6, −12 −.425 .079
MOR BP −.301 .224

MFG=medial frontal gyrus, BOLD = blood oxygen level-dependent, MOR= μ opioid receptor, BP= binding potential, ACC= anterior cingulate cortex, PCC = posterior cingulate cortex, pg = perigenual, d= dorsal, DLPFC = dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, MTG = middle temporal gyrus, sg = subgenual, ROI = region of interest, NAc= nucleus accumbens