Fear Processing in Dental Phobia during Crossmodal Symptom Provocation: An fMRI Study

Table 3

Pearson’s correlations between neural activation towards anxiety-inducing stimuli and DFS scores and phasic and tonic skin conductance reactivity in the dental phobia group (𝑛=13).

Brain areas (MNI coordinates)		DFS scores		CDA.SCR		CDA.tonic
		𝑟	𝑃 corr	𝑟	𝑃 corr	𝑟	𝑃 corr
Insula-L (auditory)	(−32, 14, −16)	−0.252	0.407	0.343	0.301	−0.538	0.088
Insula-L (visual)	(−32, 14, −16)	−0.109	0.722	−0.542	0.085	0.005	0.988
OFC-L (auditory)	(−12, 50, −6)	−0.315	0.294	0.480	0.135	−0.396	0.228
OFC-L (visual)	(−12, 50, −6)	−0.417	0.156	0.095	0.782	−0.642	0.033

DFS: Dental Fear Survey; CDA.SCR: phasic skin conductance reactivity; CDA.tonic: tonic skin conductance reactivity; OFC: orbitofrontal cortex; L: left side.