Table 4.
Significant differences in GMV between the PHN and HZ groups
| Brain area | L: left R: right |
Brodmann’s area | MNI
|
Peak intensity | Number of voxels | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| X | Y | Z | |||||
|
| |||||||
| Brain areas of decreased GMV | |||||||
| Precentral gyrus | R | BA3,6 | 54 | −12 | 48 | −4.596 | 447 |
| Brain areas of increased GMV | |||||||
| Culmen | – | – | −3 | −57 | −10.5 | 4.467 | 368 |
| Cerebellar tonsil | L | – | −28.5 | −39 | −46.5 | 4.381 | 275 |
| Lentiform nucleus | L | – | −28.5 | −7.5 | 12 | 4.725 | 344 |
Abbreviations: GMV, gray matter volume; HZ, herpes zoster; MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; PHN, postherpetic neuralgia.