Pharmacotherapy response and regional cerebral blood flow characteristics in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

Table 2 The coordinates and Z scores of abnormal rCBF in SSRI group and normal controls before treatment

Hemisphere	Brain region	Coordinates(mm)^a			Z value^b	P value
Hemisphere	Brain region	X	Y	Z	Z value^b	P value
left	lenticular nucleus	−16	6	−8	5.64	0.000
left	Thalamus lateral nucleus	−26	−32	6	4.62	0.000
left	Medial frontal gyrus	−12	20	44	4.31	0.000
left	Anterior cingulate	−10	32	16	4.16	0.000
right	Globus pallidus	24	−8	2	4.13	0.000
right	Thalamus lateral nucleus	12	−6	0	4.03	0.000

^a Coordinates from the stereotaxic atlas of Talairach and Tournoux.
^b Peak activation in a cluster of at least 50 voxels in which the difference survived a threshold of P < 0.001 in a random-effects analysis.

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