Table 2.
Regions showing significant group differences in functional connectivity with seed regions
| Seed region | Direction | Region | MNI coordinates | Voxel | Z value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| Left inferior frontal gyrus (−52, 12, 0) | INT > CONT | Temporal pole | 52 | 10 | −42 | 284 | 3.91 |
| 44 | 6 | −40 | 3.78 | ||||
| 46 | 14 | −38 | 3.71 | ||||
| Left inferior frontal gyrus (−44, 18, 6) | INT > CONT | Middle frontal gyrus* | 50 | 12 | 36 | 404 | 4.23 |
| 46 | 24 | 30 | 3.90 | ||||
| 54 | 12 | 18 | 3.81 | ||||
| Left middle frontal gyrus (−42, 8, 36) | INT < CONT | Posterior cingulate cortex* | −4 | −44 | 10 | 545 | 4.23 |
| 14 | −28 | 4 | 3.89 | ||||
| −4 | −54 | 2 | 3.85 | ||||
| Precuneus | 0 | −48 | 54 | 162 | 3.77 | ||
| 4 | −50 | 66 | 3.57 | ||||
| 6 | −60 | 54 | 3.19 | ||||
| Postcentral gyrus | −10 | −52 | 74 | 179 | 4.87 | ||
| −6 | −60 | 70 | 3.92 | ||||
Asterisks represent the survived functional connectivity values even when a stricter height threshold was employed to correct for whole-brain multiple comparisons (FDR, p < 0.05/6)
Abbreviations: INT the intervention group, CONT the control group, MNI Montreal Neurological Institute, FDR false discovery rate