Table 2.
FE (n = 16) and non-FE (n = 16) group differences in functional connectivity with the (A) left hippocampus, (B) right hippocampus, (C) left insula, (D) right insula, and (E) medial frontal cortex seed regions, after adjusting for age, education, sex, and scores on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA).
| Seed ROI | Cluster | Regions | MNI coordinates | Cluster size | t-value1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| x | y | z | |||||
| (a) Left hippocampus | 1 | Right postcentral gyrus | 66 | −18 | 14 | 215 | −4.18 |
| Right central opercular cortex | |||||||
| Right planum temporale | |||||||
| (b) Right hippocampus | 1 | Left temporal pole | −22 | 0 | −48 | 340 | −4.98 |
| Left temporal fusiform cortex | |||||||
| Left parahippocampal gyrus | |||||||
| 2 | Right temporal fusiform cortex | 32 | −4 | −46 | 292 | −4.78 | |
| Right parahippocampal gyrus | |||||||
| Right inferior temporal gyrus | |||||||
| 3 | Right cerebellum crus | 16 | −86 | −24 | 213 | 5.85 | |
| Bilateral lingual gyri | |||||||
| Right occipital fusiform gyrus | |||||||
| (c) Left insula | 1 | Anterior cingulate gyrus | 6 | 40 | 20 | 224 | 5.53 |
| Bilateral paracingulate gyri | |||||||
| 2 | Right frontal orbital cortex | 38 | 32 | −18 | 195 | 5.56 | |
| Right frontal pole | |||||||
| 3 | Posterior cingulate gyrus | −4 | −26 | 40 | 135 | 5.20 | |
| Anterior cingulate gyrus | |||||||
| (d) Right insula | 1 | Anterior cingulate gyrus | 6 | 8 | 36 | 1218 | 5.42 |
| Bilateral paracingulate gyri | |||||||
| 2 | Left middle temporal gyrus | −70 | −22 | −10 | 269 | 4.82 | |
| Left superior temporal gyrus | |||||||
| Left temporal pole | |||||||
| 3 | Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex | −40 | 46 | 26 | 153 | 4.43 | |
| 4 | Posterior cingulate gyrus | −4 | −22 | 38 | 106 | 5.22 | |
| Anterior cingulate gyrus | |||||||
| (e) Medial frontal cortex | 1 | Right middle temporal gyrus | 58 | −4 | −8 | 841 | −5.17 |
| Right superior temporal gyrus | |||||||
| 2 | Right temporal pole | 40 | 26 | −24 | 182 | −4.98 | |
| Right orbitofrontal cortex | |||||||
| 3 | Right postcentral gyrus | 44 | −6 | 14 | 136 | 4.12 | |
| Right precentral gyrus | |||||||
| Right central opercular cortex | |||||||
Note: MNI, Montreal Neurological Institute; 1Negative t-values reflect regions of greater functional connectivity in the FE group than the non-FE group.