Table 4.
Cortical thickness measurements of different regions separated gender-wise correlated with age in 250 MS patients. R and p values from Spearman correlation are reported.
| Region | Left hemisphere |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| MS patients (N = 250) |
Normal controls (N = 125) |
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| Males (N = 63) (R,p) |
Females (N = 187) (R,p) |
Males (N = 33) (R,p) |
Females (N = 92) (R,p) |
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| Banks of the superior temporal sulcus | (− 0.27, 0.03) | (− 0.1, 0.19) | (− 0.49, 0.004) | (− 0.28, 0.007) |
| Fusiform | (− 0.29,0.02) | (− 0.13, 0.07) | (− 0.45, 0.009) | (− 0.30, 0.004) |
| Inferior parietal | (− 0.34, 0.007) | (− 0.07, 0.31) | (− 0.33, 0.06) | (− 0.15, 0.15) |
| Inferior temporal | (− 0.28, 0.026) | (− 0.11, 0.14) | (− 0.39, 0.02) | (− 0.17, 0.10) |
| Lateral orbitofrontal | (− 0.24, 0.06) | (− 0.09, 0.23) | (− 0.52, 0.002) | (− 0.29, 0.005) |
| Middle temporal | (− 0.31, 0.01) | (− 0.14, 0.05) | (− 0.44, 0.01) | (− 0.32, 0.002) |
| Pars opercularis | (− 0.42, 6.05e− 04) | (− 0.11, 0.15) | (− 0.61, 1.90e− 04) | (− 0.31, 0.003) |
| Pars orbitalis | (− 0.24, 0.06) | (− 0.02, 0.81) | (− 0.67, 2.03e− 05) | (− 0.32, 0.002) |
| Pars triangularis | (− 0.25, 0.05) | (− 0.09, 0.25) | (− 0.36, 0.04) | (− 0.32, 0.002) |
| Posterior cingulate | (− 0.22, 0.08) | (− 0.16, 0.03) | (− 0.34, 0.05) | (− 0.18, 0.08) |
| Precentral | (− 0.33, 0.01) | (− 0.09, 0.20) | (− 0.34, 0.05) | (− 0.20, 0.05) |
| Rostral middle frontal | (− 0.24, 0.06) | (− 0.02, 0.75) | (− 0.56, 6.60e− 04) | (− 0.27, 0.009) |
| Superior temporal | (− 0.42, 6.23e− 04) | (− 0.15, 0.04) | (− 0.47, 0.006) | (− 0.30, 0.004) |
| Supramarginal | (− 0.39, 0.002) | (− 0.12, 0.11) | (− 0.54, 0.001) | (− 0.26, 0.011) |
| Transverse temporal | (− 0.27, 0.03) | (0.01, 0.89) | (− 0.58, 4.32e− 04) | (− 0.12, 0.23) |