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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Addict Behav. 2012 Feb 27;27(2):533–542. doi: 10.1037/a0026716

Table 2.

Descriptive statistics for white matter, treatment, and alcohol and marijuana involvement

Mean SD
Fractional anisotropy (N=32)
 Prefrontal 0.348 0.023
 Orbitofrontal 0.329 0.028
 Parietal 0.363 0.034
 Temporal 0.312 0.024
 Corpus callosum 0.494 0.034
Age at regular alcohol use 14.8 1.5
Age at regular marijuana use 14.1 1.9
BL motivation to abstain from alc in the next 30 days 6.3 3.6
BL motivation to abstain from mj in the next 30 days 7.5 3.4
Number of treatment days attended prior to the scan 18.2 8.7
Number of days abstinent from alcohol prior to scan 81.0 154.3
Number of days abstinent from marijuana prior to scan 55.4 67.1
Days of alcohol use in the 30 days prior to scan 1.6 2.8
Days of marijuana use in the 30 days prior to scan 5.8 10.8
Alcohol frequency at 6-mo (n=26) 3.0 1.9
Marijuana frequency at 6-mo (n=26) 2.9 2.5
6-mo RAPI score (n=27) 7.2 9.2
6-mo RMPI score (n=26) 9.8 11.8
Total drinks at 6-months (n=31) 34.4 71.3

Notes: N=32 unless noted otherwise. SD=standard deviation, BL=baseline, alc=alcohol, mj=marijuana, 6-mo= 6-month follow-up, RAPI= Rutgers Alcohol Problem Index, RMPI=Rutgers Marijuana Problems Index, Total drinks at 6-months= Total number of drinks consumed in the 30 days prior to 6-month follow-up (some adolescents who missed 6-months provided this TLFB-based data at a later follow-up). Substance use frequency response categories are listed in a note to Table 2.