Anatomical and Functional MRI Changes after One Year of Auditory Rehabilitation with Hearing Aids

Table 3

Brain regions with increased fMRI activity in patients before HA use (PB) when compared to patients after HA use (PA). The center of the cluster for each brain region is represented in Talairach coordinates (, , and ), followed by its respective standard deviations (in parentheses). Clusters were selected using a  < 0.05 and a cluster size of at least 50 mm³.

Brain region	Hem	Cluster size	Talairach coordinates			BA
			Cuneus	L	118		−12 (2)	−76 (2)	32 (1)	18, 19
Precuneus	L	156	−15 (2)	−73 (5)	33 (6)	19
Middle frontal gyrus	R	260	43 (3)	37 (5)	17 (2)	10, 46
Middle frontal gyrus	R	89	6 (2)	47 (1)	28 (2)	9
Superior frontal gyrus	R	70	6 (2)	49 (1)	30 (2)	9
Superior frontal gyrus	L	102	−4 (1)	55 (2)	25 (2)	9
Thalamus	R	325	12 (3)	−22 (3)	14 (2)

Hem = hemisphere; L = left; R = right; and BA = Brodmann area.