Figure 7.

Functional connectivity (FC) analysis of the left fusiform gyrus. (A) For the ERC FACES condition, differences were observed between HX and LX subjects in the functional connectivity of the left fusiform gyrus seed (functional cluster of the left FG; FWE p ≤ 0.05, 96 voxels, local maxima x, y, z = −36, −58, −16). The FC is higher among HX subjects for the right middle frontal gyrus, the left supplementary motor area, and the precuneus. This ERC FACES-specific pattern of the FG FC differed from the patterns observed for the other conditions shown in (B). For each condition the color red indicates increased functional connectivity (with the left FG seed) among HX subjects compared to LX subjects, and the color blue indicates increased FC among LX subjects compared to HX subjects (p ≤ 0.05 FWE–corrected). The bar shows the image intensity brightness range from 0 to 0.5. ERC FACES: European refugee crisis with a close-up of emotional faces; ERC crowds: European refugee crisis showing an anonymous crowd; TERR: Islamic terrorists in a threatening pose; VICT FACES: victims of natural disasters or accidents with a close-up of emotional faces. Clusters are rendered on an MNI template using MRIcroGL (https://www.nitrc.org/projects/mricrogl/).