Table 2.
Quantification of BOLD changes in anatomical forebrain and midbrain regions.
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| Brain region (general function) | # activated voxels | Total # voxels in mask | % Activation | # activated voxels | Total # voxels in mask | % Activation | Laterality Index |
| Thalamus (motor and sensory) | 208 | 452 | 46 | 51 | 360 | 14 | 0.53 |
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| Hippocampus (memory and navigation) | 115 | 539 | 21 | 59 | 536 | 11 | 0.32 |
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| Reticular Formation (consciousness) | 63 | 90 | 70 | 27 | 96 | 28 | 0.43 |
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| Motor Cortex (motor) | 58 | 258 | 22 | 22 | 217 | 10 | 0.38 |
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| Anterior Cingulate Cortex (executive and cognitive) | 34 | 134 | 25 | 23 | 124 | 19 | 0.16 |
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| Retrosplenial Cortex (cognition, memory, and navigation) | 29 | 128 | 23 | 35 | 156 | 22 | 0.00 |
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| Somatosensory Cortex (sensory) | 28 | 591 | 5 | 5 | 622 | 0.8 | 0.71 |
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| Limbic Cortices (emotion) | 26 | 35 | 74 | 8 | 32 | 25 | 0.50 |
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| Basal Ganglia (cognition and movement) | 8 | 552 | 2 | 1 | 588 | 0.17 | 0.79 |
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| Rhinal Cortex (memory and navigation) | 0 | 329 | 0 | 35 | 357 | 10 | −1.00 |
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| Insular Cortex (sensory) | 0 | 127 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 0 | 0.00 |
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| Periaqueductal Gray (pain) | 77 | 203 | 38 | ||||
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| Septal Nuclei (emotion) | 35 | 121 | 29 | ||||
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| Hypothalamus (physiological control) | 0 | 383 | 1 | ||||