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. 2010 Aug 2;107(33):14817–14822. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1009164107

Table 1.

Neural activity during social exclusion (vs. inclusion) that was significantly associated with greater inflammatory responses to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), as indexed by changes in levels of a soluble receptor for tumor necrosis factor-α (sTNFαRII) (n = 31)

Brain region Brodmann area MNI coordinates Cluster size (k) t r (TNF)
Paralimbic
 dACC BA 24 −6 18 34 351 4.58 0.67
 dACC BA 24 12 38 0 29 4.45 0.63
 Anterior insula −34 –22 28 45 4.44 0.63
 Parahippocampal gyrus BA 36 −22 –20 −30 31 4.13 0.60
Cortex
 Middle frontal gyrus BA 10/46 −30 52 12 99 4.54 0.64
 Inferior frontal gyrus BA 45 50 26 20 23 3.80 0.59
 Precuneus BA 30 4 –46 −4 454 6.08 0.71
 Fusiform gyrus BA 37 −40 –60 −12 28 4.41 0.63
 Lingual gyrus BA 18 26 –74 0 296 6.33 0.71
 Lingual gyrus BA 18 −4 –70 −8 107 4.36 0.63
 Fusiform gyrus BA 18 22 –98 −10 21 3.75 0.58
Subcortical and cerebellum
 Caudate 18 18 14 79 4.34 0.61
 Thalamus −20 –28 14 51 4.30 0.62
 Midbrain (substantia nigra) −12 –12 −12 20 4.16 0.62
 Medulla 6 –32 −48 30 4.09 0.61
 Cerebellum 32 –48 −36 49 4.41 0.64
 Cerebellum −4 –70 −34 35 4.23 0.62
 Cerebellum −28 –44 −24 21 4.05 0.60
 Cerebellum −22 –72 −34 45 4.00 0.59

The brain regions listed represent those that were significantly related to TSST-induced changes in sTNFαRII, thresholded at P < 0.001, 20 voxels. dACC is the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex; BA refers to putative Brodmann's area; MNI coordinates identify the local maxima of particular brain activations, reported in Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) format; Cluster size (k) is the number of voxels in each activation cluster that was significantly associated with greater sTNFαRII responses to the TSST; t is the t-value at those coordinates (local maxima); r (TNF) is the correlation coefficient describing the strength of association between the activation cluster and sTNFαRII response to the TSST.