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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychosom Med. 2017 Sep;79(7):777–784. doi: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000486

Figure 2. Relationship between interoceptive sensation ratings and activation in response to images of food compared to non-food objects.

Figure 2

AN participants (green) exhibited a positive relationship between stomach sensation intensity ratings and food-image evoked activation in the posterior insula and a negative relationship between stomach sensation intensity ratings and activation in the amygdala, while healthy participants (purple) exhibited the opposite pattern. AN participants’ ratings of heart sensation intensity were negatively correlated with activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, while healthy participants exhibited positive relationships with heart sensation ratings in this area. Scatterplot data are within-group ranked values and provided for visualization purposes only. Coordinates are in Talairach space.