Functional Connectivity in the Thalamus and Hippocampus Studied with Functional MR Imaging
Thor Steina,
Chad Moritza,
Michelle Quigleya,
Dietmar Cordesa,
Victor Haughton
,a and
Elizabeth Meyeranda
a From the Departments of Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

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FIG 1. Voxels significantly correlating with seed voxels in the ipsilateral and contralateral hippocampus and thalamus
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FIG 2. Functional connectivity map of the hippocampus. A seed voxel in the left hippocampus correlated with pixels in the ipsilateral and, to a lesser extent, the contralateral hippocampus. Significantly correlated pixels were also noted in the insula and cingulate gyrus region
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FIG 3. Functional connectivity in the thalamus. Pixels in the ipsilateral and contralateral thalamus showed significant correlation coefficients with a seed voxel cluster in the left thalamus
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