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Table 2 Major brain activations in 42 aversion non-human animal studies

From: Common brain activations for painful and non-painful aversive stimuli

Rank order: Aversion (42 studies)

Area

Studies reporting activation

Percentage of studies reporting activation

Amyg

32

76%

Thal

13

30%

Hyp

12

29%

NTS

10

24%

Parahipp/Hipp

9

21%

PBN

8

19%

PAG

8

19%

Ins

7

17%

PFC (PL, IL)/OFC

7

17%

BNST

5

12%

NAc

5

12%

Septal

3

7%

ACC, DR, DS, LC

2 each

5%

Motor, Hab, VTA

1 each

2%

  1. Results are ordered by the number of studies reporting specific activations; percent of studies reporting activations is used for comparative illustration. For individual study details and inter-study comparisons, see Additional file 1: Table S2B. Reprinted with permission from Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience [5].