Sex Differences and Menstrual Cycle Phase-Dependent Modulation of Craving for Cigarette: An fMRI Pilot Study

Table 2

Cerebral activations of female participants, during viewing of appetitive cigarette images (relative to neutral images) and during the follicular and luteal menstrual cycle phases. R = right; L = left; BA = Brodmann area; value is uncorrected at 0.001.

Brain region	R/L	BA	MNI coordinates			-scores	Voxels
			Follicular phase
Angular	R	39	49	−66	32	4.62	87
Posterior cingulate	L	31	−4	−49	32	3.98	241
Anterior cingulate	R	24	4	35	−7	3.45	77
Inferior temporal	R	19	46	−70	−4	3.40
Precuneus	L	29	−7	−49	10	3.29
Angular	L	39	−49	−66	38	3.21	50
Medial superior frontal	L	8	−4	46	32	3.20	33
Midcingulum	L	31	0	−28	42	3.04
Luteal phase
Hippocampus	R	—	42	−35	−10	3.36

  results are no longer significant after applying the cluster threshold as determined by Monte Carlo simulation.