Clinical Study

Brain Activation in Primary Motor and Somatosensory Cortices during Motor Imagery Correlates with Motor Imagery Ability in Stroke Patients

Table 3

Significant clusters of activation for the main effects of “Pinching with the affected hand” (PA > Rest). Single-voxel uncorrected threshold , cluster size . BA: Brodmann area at given coordinates.

PA > RESTRegions BA #Voxels MNI

Non-lesioned brain sideInferior parietal lobule5467.10−39−51 48
Supramarginal gyrus7.40−57−36 36
Superior parietal lobule4.51−15−78 51
Inferior parietal lobule216 4.20−30−42 51
Postcentral gyrus2 3.79−27−42 57
Thalamus4947.17−15−12 9
Precentral gyrus3a25.58−48−6 24
Thalamus4.60 9 −9 0
Putamen4.53−27−12 0
Insula4.54−33 12 15
Inferior frontal gyrus
(p.opercularis)
4.17−45 9 15
Precentral gyrus623.95−54−3 56
Middle temporal gyrus1766.20−51−60 0
Inferior temporal gyrus5.27−51−57 12
Inferior occipital gyrus5.09−39−69 6
Middle occipital gyrus4.38−36−87 0
Cerebellum (IV-V)385.28−12−48−18
Cerebellar vermis (4-5)3.69 0 −48−6

Lesioned brain side Precentral gyrus6537827.2539−1257
SMA166.589−1872
4p23.4239−1839
Postcentral gyrus3b23.6942−2148
Inferior parietal lobule2322705.7839−4251
Supramarginal gyrus4.6154−3048
Middle temporal gyrusV561827.6354−660
Inferior temporal gyrus4.7757−5415
Middle occipital gyrus4.2242−81 3
Inferior occipital gyrus3.7733−78 9
Superior parietal lobule865.1818−75 54
Precuneus3.629−66 66
Amygdala 865.1927−12 6
Putamen4.1733−12−3
Thalamus3.3718−24 9
Cerebellum (IV-V)163.6318−48−15

#Voxels: number of voxels in cluster. MNI: coordinates in the Montreal Neurological Institute standard brain space. : maximum score in cluster. The percentage of voxels from the cluster falling within the named region is indicated by the superscripted values (obtained by the SPM Anatomy Toolbox).