Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of neuroimaging at baseline (n = 107)
Location | Type | Right |
Left |
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ρ | p | ρ | p | ||
Atrophy | |||||
Frontal lobe | Central | –0.106 | 0.276 | –0.106 | 0.276 |
Cortical | –0.127 | 0.192 | –0.127 | 0.192 | |
Parietal lobe | Central | –0.137 | 0.160 | –0.137 | 0.160 |
Cortical | –0.141 | 0.149 | –0.141 | 0.149 | |
Temporal lobe | Central | –0.078 | 0.425 | –0.099 | 0.308 |
Cortical | –0.198 | 0.041 | –0.104 | 0.066 | |
Occipital lobe | Central | –0.111 | 0.256 | –0.111 | 0.256 |
Cortical | –0.172 | 0.077 | –0.180 | 0.065 | |
Cerebellum | Central | 0.104 | 0.287 | 0.104 | 0.287 |
Cortical | 0.136 | 0.161 | 0.101 | 0.298 | |
Brainstem | 0.056 | 0.567 | – | – | |
WML | |||||
Frontal lobe | Central | –0.027 | 0.786 | –0.027 | 0.786 |
Subcortical | 0.05 | 0.608 | 0.05 | 0.608 | |
Parietal lobe | Central | –0.036 | 0.710 | –0.041 | 0.675 |
Subcortical | –0.028 | 0.776 | –0.031 | 0.749 | |
Temporal lobe | Central | –0.119 | 0.223 | –0.344 | 0.191 |
Subcortical | –0.124 | 0.202 | –0.097 | 0.319 | |
Occipital lobe | Central | –0.092 | 0.346 | –0.094 | 0.337 |
Subcortical | –0.086 | 0.39 | –0.086 | 0.378 | |
Brainstem | 0.08 | 0.411 | 0.08 | 0.411 |
Note that ratings of WML and atrophy are very similar (but not identical) in the right and left hemispheres. We found no WML in the cerebellum.