Table 4.
Descriptive Statistics for Extracted Percent Signal Change during the Emotional Word Stroop Task > Fixation.
Measures | Twins with stress |
Control co-twins |
Paired t-test | p-value | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | SD | Range | Mean | SD | Range | ||||
Left | |||||||||
Accumbens | 0.13 | 0.13 | −0.06–0.33 | −0.08 | 0.12 | −0.32–0.06 | 3.33 | 0.010 | * |
Thalamus | 0.11 | 0.12 | −0.13–0.27 | −0.07 | 0.17 | −0.42–0.07 | 2.44 | 0.040 | * |
Amygdala | 0.10 | 0.14 | −0.14–0.32 | −0.02 | 0.22 | −0.37–0.40 | 1.80 | 0.110 | |
Hippocampus | 0.04 | −0.11 | −0.20–0.25 | −0.11 | 0.13 | −0.32–0.001 | 3.47 | 0.009 | ** |
Right | |||||||||
Accumbens | 0.11 | 0.15 | −12–0.35 | −0.09 | 0.13 | −0.35–0.06 | 2.68 | 0.028 | * |
Thalamus | 0.09 | 0.12 | −0.16–0.23 | −0.07 | 0.17 | −0.39–0.10 | 2.27 | 0.053 | † |
Amygdala | 0.13 | 0.16 | −0.14–0.36 | −0.04 | 0.18 | −0.33–0.29 | 3.66 | 0.006 | ** |
Hippocampus | 0.06 | 0.16 | −0.23–0.24 | −0.10 | 0.10 | −0.24–0.008 | 3.93 | 0.004 | ** |
Prefrontal Cortex | |||||||||
ACC | 0.04 | 0.15 | −0.17–0.37 | −0.11 | 0.13 | −0.35–0.05 | 2.10 | 0.069 | † |
SFG | 0.11 | 0.32 | −0.26–0.81 | −0.14 | 0.33 | −0.72–0.52 | 1.54 | 0.162 | |
MFG | 0.11 | 0.25 | −0.23–0.62 | −0.05 | 0.24 | −0.52–0.36 | 1.23 | 0.253 |
Note. Significant results in bold. *p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001, †p < 0.10, n = 9 twin pairs.