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Table 2 Functional Activations for High-Calorie, Low-Calorie and Non-Food Object Contrasts at Baseline in Obese Endometrial Cancer Patients Enrolled in a 16-Session Group Behavioral Lifestyle Intervention

From: Reduction in neural activation to high-calorie food cues in obese endometrial cancer survivors after a behavioral lifestyle intervention: a pilot study

 

  Brain Region (Hemisphere)

Pre-Meal (Fasted)

Post-Meal (Fed/Satiated)

Peak Voxel

Peak Voxel

x

y

z

Cluster Size*

t

x

y

z

Cluster Size*

t

↑ Activation

High Calorie vs. Low Calorie Food

   Insula (BA = 13)

     

44

-11

18

524

5.67

   Cingulate Gyrus (BA = 31)

     

22

-21

44

491

6.04

   Precentral Gyrus (BA = 4)

     

53

-4

15

422

5.49

High Calorie vs. Non-Food Object

   OFC (Bilateral; BA = 47)

-47

32

-7

839

14.5

     

   Medial Frontal Gyrus (BA = 6)

-9

28

37

897

11.6

     

   Anterior PFC (BA = 10)

-8

56

19

825

10.4

     

   Dorsolateral PFC (BA = 9)

-42

3

28

994

10.4

     

   Dorsolateral PFC (BA = 46)

45

32

11

937

7.93

     

   Middle Frontal Gyrus (BA = 8)

-39

26

42

648

8.27

     

   Thalamus (Bilateral)

     

9

-16

3

847

5.00

   Posterior Cingulate (BA = 29)

     

-7

-45

18

491

5.24

   Precuneus (BA = 7)

     

-24

-77

47

535

7.65

Low Calorie vs. Non-Food Object

   Putamen

-24

0

16

756

9.35

     

   Claustrum

24

12

15

830

9.89

     

   Caudate

-8

7

14

783

7.64

     

   Caudate

13

-2

17

296

5.17

     

   Anterior PFC (BA = 10)

-32

64

4

635

8.70

     

   Superior Frontal Gyrus (BA = 8)

-22

19

46

517

8.03

     

↓ Activation

High Calorie vs. Low Calorie Food

   Anterior Cingulate

21

39

15

766

-10.9

     

High Calorie vs. Non-Food Object

   No regions survived threshold

          

Low Calorie vs. Non-Food Object

 

   Culmen

     

22

-47

-12

639

-6.72

  1. x, y, z = coordinates in Talairach space; t statistic for peak voxel; *Cluster size is reported in mm3. Results are whole brain cluster corrected for multiple comparisons; threshold α < 0.05 (min. cluster size: 10-36 voxels).