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. 2019 Nov 14;5(6):e99. doi: 10.1192/bjo.2019.68

Table 3.

Between-group results: high depression symptoms versus healthy control group analysisa

Brain region Comment X Y Z z P Standard effect size Upper 95% CI Lower 95% CI
Anticipation phase
Chocolate picture
Healthy controls versus depression symptoms group
  lOFC (BA10)/ −38 48 −4 5.39 <0.001 −0.57 2.12 0.23
  dlPFC (BA9) −28 36 30 5.39 <0.001 −0.85 1.08 −0.24
  Insula 42 6 0 4.78 <0.001 −0.92 0.37 −0.88
  Precuneus (BA7) 10 −70 48 4.71 <0.001 −2.26 0.17 −0.84
Aversive picture
Healthy controls versus depression symptoms group
  lOFC (BA10)/ −38 48 −2 5.05 <0.001 −0.82 2.57 0.44
  dlPFC (BA9) −30 44 30 5.05 <0.001 −0.72 2.25 0.4
  Precuneus (BA7) −2 −74 −46 4.11 0.009 −0.84 0.06 −1.24
  Insula (BA13) 30 22 14 4.09 0.01 −0.77 1.09 −0.4
  Premotor cortex (BA6) 38 12 42 4.01 0.01 −0.64 1.04 −0.08
  Posterior cingulate (BA31) 8 −30 42 3.93 0.01 −0.90 1.08 0.26
Effort phase
Effort to gain chocolate (choc hard-choc easy)
Healthy controls versus depression symptoms group
  Insula 32 16 −2 3.76 0.005 −0.61 0.41 −0.002
  Claustrum/putamen 26 8 −4 3.45 0.005 −0.58 0.33 −0.09
Effort to avoid aversion (aversive hard-aversive easy) No significant differences
Consummation phase
Chocolate taste or aversive taste No significant differences

CI, confidence interval; lOFC, lateral orbitofrontal cortex; dlPFC, dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex.

a.

Thresholded at P = 0.001. Standard effect size calculated using the depression symptoms and healthy control groups extracted activation from SPM plots. The mean activation for each group and the s.d. and n was then used in the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring online effect size calculator.