Table 3.
Neuroanatomical correlates of emotion identification and reactivity in patient groups.
| Group | Region | Side | Cluster | Peak (mm) | T score | PFWE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (voxels) | x | y | z | |||||
| Emotion identification | ||||||||
| bvFTD | Anterior cingulate | L | 196 | −8 | 44 | 12 | 5.59 | 0.003 |
| Anterior insula | L | 123 | −30 | 27 | 0 | 4.07 | 0.047 | |
| Supplementary motor area | L | 5 | −10 | 4 | 50 | 3.81 | 0.044 | |
| Opercular IFG | L | 32 | −57 | 12 | 18 | 5.14 | 0.003 | |
| Anteromedial temporal: | ||||||||
| Temporal pole | L | 2133 | −32 | 8 | −38 | 5.11 | 0.010 | |
| Amygdala | −24 | 2 | −38 | 4.94 | 0.015 | |||
| Fusiform gyrus | −30 | −9 | −38 | 4.82 | 0.019 | |||
| rtvFTD | Supplementary motor area | L | 34 | −3 | −10 | 57 | 4.15 | 0.022 |
| Temporo-occipital junction | R | 18 | 66 | −50 | −8 | 4.06 | 0.038 | |
| svPPA | STG/STS | L | 536 | −58 | −30 | 14 | 7.21 | 0.005 |
| Supplementary motor area | L | 19 | −4 | −2 | 50 | 4.23 | 0.019 | |
| Opercular IFG | L | 25 | −57 | 12 | 18 | 5.05 | 0.003 | |
| Anterior cingulate | L | 24 | −2 | 44 | 3 | 4.11 | 0.042 | |
| Fusiform gyrus | R | 44 | 22 | −4 | −44 | 4.43 | 0.042 | |
| nfvPPA | Supplementary motor area | L | 37 | −4 | −2 | 50 | 4.14 | 0.023 |
| Opercular IFG | L | 9 | −52 | 8 | 18 | 3.96 | 0.033 | |
| Facial EMG reactivity | ||||||||
| bvFTD | Supplementary motor area | L | 12 | −8 | −9 | 56 | 3.99 | 0.030 |
| Temporo-occipital junction | L | 25 | −54 | −45 | −4 | 4.29 | 0.064 | |
| rtvFTD | Temporo-occipital junction | R | 8 | 62 | −62 | 2 | 3.96 | 0.046 |
| svPPA | Parahippocampal gyrus | L | 59 | −20 | −28 | −24 | 4.25 | 0.028 |
| Parahippocampal gyrus | R | 72 | 18 | −33 | −18 | 5.25 | 0.003 | |
| nfvPPA | Primary visual cortex | R | 291 | 12 | −80 | 3 | 5.92 | 0.001 |
| Primary motor cortex | R | 521 | 56 | 8 | 27 | 5.43 | 0.007 | |
| Supplementary motor area | R | 18 | 8 | 8 | 68 | 4.42 | 0.012 | |
The table presents regional grey matter correlates of mean overall emotion identification score and facial EMG reactivity (as defined in Fig. 1) during viewing of facial expressions in the four patient groups, based on voxel-based morphometry. Coordinates of local maxima are in standard MNI space. P values are all significant after family-wise error (FWE) correction for multiple voxel-wise comparisons within pre-specified anatomical regions of interest (see text). bvFTD, patient group with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia (excluding right temporal cases); IFG, inferior frontal gyrus; nfvPPA, patient group with nonfluent variant primary progressive aphasia; rtvFTD, patient subgroup with right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia; STG/S, superior temporal gyrus/sulcus; svPPA, patient group with semantic variant primary progressive aphasia.