Table 5.
Relationships between regional activation and clinical symptoms.
| Test | Region | β | P |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social anhedonia | left vs | 0.008 | 0.425 |
| Anticipatory anhedonia | left vs | 0.578 | 0.761 |
| Consummatory anhedonia | left vs | 1.651 | 0.431 |
| Social anhedonia | right vs | 0.011 | 0.168 |
| Anticipatory anhedonia | right vs | −0.256 | 0.550 |
| Consummatory anhedonia | right vs | 1.739 | 0.291 |
| Social anhedonia | vmPFC | 0.235 | 0.047 |
| Anticipatory anhedonia | vmPFC | −2.330 | 0.436 |
| Consummatory anhedonia | vmPFC | −1.097 | 0.542 |
Abbreviations: VS – ventral striatum; vmPFC – ventromedial prefrontal cortex. Positive relationships were tested involving social anhedonia, given that higher social anhedonia scores (derived from the social anhedonia scale – SAS-R) equal greater impairment. Negative relationships were tested for anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia, given that higher anticipatory and consummatory anhedonia scores (derived from the temporal experience of pleasure scale – TEPS) equal less impairment. β values refer to the parameter estimates extracted from higher-level analyses using FSL’s featquery.
Relationships were considered significant at p < 0.05 using Threshold-Free Cluster Enhancement (TFCE) in FSL’s randomise function, and corrected for multiple comparisons using FWE.