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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2008 Feb 13;30(10):1657–1676. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2007.12.020

Table 8.

Test of nonlinearity of effects of age on regional ROIs across the age span for manual ROIs and PVEs from binary masks.

Slope
(cm3/year) (cm3/year2) R2 F (1, 196)

Linear Quadratic Linear Quadratic

ROI Manual PVE Man PVE Man PVE Man PVE Manual PVE
ACG −0.002 −0.003 −0.00005 −0.00003 0.026 0.438 0.030 0.448 < 1 3.55
DLPFC −0.115 −0.002 0.00014 −0.000002 0.400 0.527 0.401 0.527 < 1 < 1
FG −0.055 −0.002 −0.00113 −0.00001 0.186 0.331 0.206 0.332 4.77* < 1
FW −0.143 −0.00045 −0.00327 −0.00004 0.153 0.042 0.173 0.127 4.67* 19.04**
HC −0.024 −0.001 −0.00177 −0.00002 0.216 0.311 0.270 0.341 14.59** 8.99**
IP −0.007 −0.003 −0.00037 −0.00001 0.001 0.599 0.002 0.603 < 1 2.03
IPW 0.019 −0.00037 −0.00068 −0.00004 0.013 0.019 0.016 0.071 < 1 10.83**
IT −0.031 −0.001 0.00021 0.00001 0.108 0.201 0.109 0.203 < 1 < 1
MC −0.060 −0.003 0.00039 0.000002 0.222 0.652 0.225 0.652 < 1 < 1
MCW −0.030 0.001 −0.00091 −0.00003 0.060 0.056 0.074 0.084 2.96 6.00*
OFC −0.035 −0.002 0.00035 0.00001 0.243 0.418 0.249 0.424 1.52 1.81
PHG −0.016 −0.002 −0.00028 −0.00003 0.107 0.305 0.114 0.319 1.71 3.98*
SSC −0.049 −0.003 0.00081 −0.00002 0.218 0.625 0.232 0.634 3.57 4.84*
SSCW −0.022 0.001 0.00019 −0.00002 0.050 0.052 0.051 0.069 < 1 3.70
VC −0.013 −0.002 −0.00020 −0.00002 0.043 0.415 0.046 0.420 < 1 1.69

Note. Man = manual, PVE = partial volume estimate. Linear slope indicates estimate of rate of change in volume (cm3/year); quadratic slope is estimate of acceleration in volume (cm3/year2).

*

At (1, 196) df, F = 3.89 for p = 0.05;

**

F = 6.76, p = 0.01. See Table 2 for ROI abbreviations.