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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Apr 16.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2012 Apr 16;201(3):182–189. doi: 10.1016/j.pscychresns.2011.07.017

Table 4. Group comparisons of Laterality Indices of cortical thickness in the anatomical regions in language-processing pathway.

Brain region BA Thickness laterality (Mean ± SD) Statistical value
S H N F p p for Post-hoc t tests
inferior orbital frontal gyri 45 0.05±0.04 0.01±0.03 0.00±0.03 11.55 < 0.001 S<H (<0.001);
S<N (<0.001)
middle frontal gyri 46 0.01±0.02 0.01±0.02 0.01±0.02 0.238 0.789
Inferior opercular frontal gyri 44 0.01±0.03 0.02±0.03 0.01±0.04 0.232 0.794
inferior parietal gyri 40 0.10±0.04 0.02±0.03 0.01±0.04 56.33 <0.001 S>H (<0.001);
S>N (<0.001)
angular gyri 39 0.02±0.03 0.01±0.03 0.01±0.03 1.737 0.182
superior temporal gyri 22 0.02±0.02 0.01±0.02 0.00±0.02 2.546 0.084
occipital cortex 17-19 0.01±0.02 0.00±0.02 0.01±0.02 17.08 <0.001 S>N(<0.001);
H>N(<0.001)

BA=Brodmann's Area; S=schizophrenia patients; H=high-risk people; N=normal controls