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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jan 26.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2020 Jul 26;44(10):2011–2022. doi: 10.1038/s41366-020-0644-1

Table 3.

Brain regions in which pre-meal brain activation by food cues associated with change in BMI z-score by FBT.

Primary Gray Matter Anatomic Area of Z max A B MNI coordinatesC Brodmann AreaD Cluster Size
(# voxels)
Z maxE P Other anatomic areas in clusterF
x y z
Negative Association: Greater pre-meal brain activation is associated with greater reduction in BMI z-score
High-calorie foods > objects

  Occipital Pole R 20 −104 −1 18 15598 4.44 <0.0001 occipital pole (B), occipital fusiform gyrus, intracalcarine cortex, lingual gyrus
vm Prefrontal Cortex (Paracingulate Gyrus) L −9 45 −5 32 10361 5.25 <0.0001 vmPFC (paracingulate gyrus) (B), frontal medial cortex-mOFC (B), frontal orbital cortex, cingulate gyrus (B), frontal pole
Low-calorie foods > objects

  Occipital Pole R 7 −102 6 17 2620 3.35 0.01 -------
High-calorie foods > low-calorie foods

  Vm Prefrontal Cortex (Paracingulate Gyrus) L −10 49 −3 32 2518 5.42 0.02 frontal medial cortex-mOFC (B), cingulate cortex (B), frontal pole
Positive Association: Greater pre-meal brain activation is associated with little or no change in BMI z-score
High-calorie foods > objects

  Superior Precuneous Cortex L −17 −56 43 n/a 9444 4.32 <0.0001 precuneous cortex (B), superior parietal lobule, cingulate gyrus, postcentral gyrus (B), precentral Gyrus, lateral occipital cortex (R)
  Inferior Precuneous Cortex R 6 −53 6 n/a 4154 4.14 0.0008 cingulate gyrus (B), lingual gyrus, intracalcarine cortex
  Lateral Occipital Cortex L −30 88 37 19 3071 4.12 0.007 -------
  Lingual Gyrus R 31 −45 −6 19 2742 3.99 0.01 temporal occipital fusiform cortex, parahippocampal gyrus, temporal fusiform cortex
Low-calorie foods > objects

  Hippocampus R 19 −15 −18 54 10615 4.20 <0.0001 parahippocampal gyrus, lingual gyrus, temporal occipital fusiform cortex, temporal fusiform cortex, amygdala, lateral occipital cortex, inferior temporal gyrus
  Lateral Occipital Cortex L −52 −69 −1 19 3958 3.79 0.0006 middle temporal gyrus
  Lingual Gyrus L −13 −51 −10 19 3726 3.84 0.001 temporal occipital fusiform cortex, temporal fusiform cortex, parahippocampal gyrus
  Inferior Precuneous Cortex R 6 −55 7 18 3106 3.30 0.004 lingual gyrus, cingulate gyrus, intracalcarine cortex
High-calorie foods > low-calorie foods

  Superior Precuneous Cortex L −11 −50 45 31 9169 3.88 <0.0001 precuneous cortex (B), precentral gyrus, postcentral gyrus, lateral occipital cortex

A negative association indicates greater pre-meal brain activation in identified clusters (by contrast indicated) is associated with greater reduction in BMI z-score by FBT. A positive association indicates greater pre-meal brain activation in identified clusters (by contrast indicated) is associated with little or no change in BMI z-score by FBT. Cerebellum was not included in cluster analyses.

A

Harvard-Oxford Atlas identified regions of local maximum (*if local maximum appeared in white matter closest gray matter structure within cluster is listed),

B

Hemisphere of local maximum (L: Left, R: Right),

C

Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) coordinates of peak location,

D

Brodmann area of local maximum,

E

maximum Z-score,

F

Other areas identified within the cluster (areas listed are ipsilateral to primary area unless otherwise indicated; L: Left hemisphere, R: Right hemisphere, B: Bilateral; regions in bold were included in functional-anatomic a priori regions of interest analyses (See Supplemental Figure 1). Z-statistic images were corrected for multiple comparisons with a cluster-threshold correction (individual voxel threshold Z=2.3, corrected cluster significant threshold P=0.05).