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Table 2 Significant effects of word generation, task difficulty and group effects during the performance of a verbal fluency task by subjects with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and healthy controls.

From: Pattern of neural responses to verbal fluency shows diagnostic specificity for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

  

Coordinates

 
 

Brodmann area

x

y

z

Z max

Word generation > repetition

     

Inferior frontal gyrus

BA47

-34

28

0

4.58

 

BA45

-50

28

16

3.89

 

BA44

-52

12

24

5.44

Inferior frontal gyrus/insula

BA47

36

24

0

3.5

Inferior frontal gyrus/orbital

BA47

-50

36

-8

2.95

Superior temporal gyrus

BA 38

-52

20

-16

4.18

Thalamus

 

-8

-14

10

3.37

Word generation < repetition

     

Precuneus

BA 7

-2

-68

48

4.8

Ventral anterior cingulate

BA10/25

4

44

-8

4.11

Word generation with difficult > easy letters

     

Dorsal anterior cingulate (rostral, supracallosal)

BA24/32

-4

24

32

2.65

Effect of diagnostic group

     

   Schiz. > bipolar > control

     

Dorsal anterior cingulate (caudal, supracallosal)

BA24

-2

0

40

3.12

Middle frontal gyrus

BA46/44

-40

32

40

3.81

Putamen

 

18

14

-8

3.23

   Schiz. > (bipolar, control)

     

Inferior and middle frontal gyrus

BA44/9/6

44

12

40

4.29

Superior frontal gyrus

BA9

18

52

32

3.18

Inferior frontal gyrus

BA44/6

48

10

16

2.75

   (Schiz., bipolar) > control

     

Precuneus

BA7

-4

-66

48

4.24

Precuneus/Superior occipital cortex

BA7

18

-82

48

4.12

Angular/supramarginal gyrus

BA39/40

56

-38

48

3.29

Angular gyrus

BA39

-42

-58

48

2.72

Posterior cingulated

BA23

0

-30

32

2.83