Brain responses to body image stimuli but not food are altered in women with bulimia nervosa

BMC Psychiatry

Table 2 Food paradigm: group map activations in the bulimia nervosa (BN) and healthy control (HC) groups, and between-group differences in brain activation patterns for the contrast ‘food vs low level baseline (LLB)’

	p-value	Brodmann area	Talairach coordinates	Cluster size (voxels)
People with BN (n = 21)
*Food > LLB*
L Superior Frontal Gyrus	0.004	BA 9	x = -3.6; y = 55.6; z = 29.7	46
L Medial Frontal Gyrus	0.003	BA 8	x = 0.0; y = 25.9; z = 36.3	59
L Lingual Gyrus	<0.001	BA 17	x = -14.4; y = -85.2; z = 0.0	1357
*LLB > Food*
R Cerebellum, Culmen	0.002	-	x = 7.2; y = -37.4; z = -23.1	3657
HCs (n = 23)
*Food > LLB*
L Medial Frontal Gyrus	< 0.001	BA 6	x = -3.6; y = 11.1; z = 42.9	705
R Cuneus	< 0.001	BA 17	x = 21.7; y = -77.8; z = 9.9	1825
*LLB > Food*
L Cingulate Gyrus	0.001	BA 24	x = -18.1; y = 3.7; z = 29.7	87
L Cerebellum	< 0.001	-	x = -7.2; y = -51.9; z = -23.1	6033
People with BN (n = 21) vs HCs (n = 23) (food vs LLB contrast)
*People with BN > HCs*
L Cuneus	< 0.001	BA17	x = 21.7; y = 77.7; z = 8.3	208
R Cuneus	< 0.001	BA17	x = -21.7; y = 77.7; z = 8.3	333
*HCs > People with BN*
None

The Talairach coordinates indicate the location of the peak voxel within each cluster.

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