Table 3

Voxel-based morphometric differences between patients with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls in regions of interest analysis

Contrast; location of peak voxels^*	MNI peak voxel			t	p value†	z	Cluster size, k

	x	y	z
Controls > BPD
Right hippocampus	28	−30	−4	6.67	< 0.001	5.75	111
Left hippocampus	−26	−30	−4	4.87	0.003	4.45	53
BPD > controls
Left hypothalamus	−6	−4	−4	3.57	0.023	3.39	10
	−8	−2	−8	3.42	0.033	3.25
BPD with CTQ covaried
Right hypothalamus	4	−6	−12	3.69	0.07	3.29	68
	−4	−6	−12	3.51	0.07	3.51

BPD = borderline personality disorder; CTQ = Childhood Trauma Questionnaire;24 MNI = Montreal Neurological Institute.
↵* According to Automated Anatomic Labelling atlas.