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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2013 Oct 1;170(10):1152–1160. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2013.12101294

Table 2.

Total brain and regional brain gray matter and white matter volumes

Anatomical Region Control Women (A) Anorexia Nervosa Women (B) Recovered-Anorexia Nervosa Women (C) Bulimia Nervosa Women (D)
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD F p
Whole Brain Volumes
GM Volume (cm3) 629.7 62.1 651.8 37.9 639.4 49.5 662.4 40.6 1.8 0.149
WM Volume (cm3) 494.0 44.3 503.8 41.0 493.0 56.3 503.3 68.2 0.3 0.856
CSF Volume (cm3) 226.8 30.6 246.3 33.1 226.5 26.6 233.2 28.0 2.0 0.118
Total Intracranial Volume (cm3) 1350.5 105.3 1402.0 71.6 1358.8 107.0 1398.9 117.8 1.5 0.232

Regional GM Volumes MNI Coordinates
L Orbitofrontal Cortex x=-6, y=29, z=-26 0.479 0.071 0.553 0.091 0.538 0.066 0.585 0.072 7.9 <0.001 B>A*, D>A***, C>A*
R Anterior Ventral Insula x=30, y=14, z=-12 0.704 0.079 0.806 0.084 0.754 0.084 0.777 0.104 5.3 0.002 B>A***
R Anterior, Middle Insula x=42, y= 9, z= 4 0.597 0.058 0.679 0.066 0.645 0.063 0.630 0.069 6.1 0.001 B>A***, C>A*
L Anterior Ventral Insula x=-29, y=12, z=-17 0.703 0.059 0.753 0.077 0.729 0.066 0.769 0.070 4.0 0.011 D>A**
R Dorsal Caudate x=21, y=-3, z=19 0.173 0.019 0.170 0.017 0.153 0.018 0.147 0.021 10.2 <0.001 A>D***, A>C**, B>D**, B>C*
L Dorsal Caudate x=-20, y=-3, z=18 0.308 0.027 0.295 0.032 0.281 0.034 0.270 0.036 5.7 0.001 A>D**, A>C*
R Dorsal Putamen x=20, y=0, z=12 0.173 0.013 0.168 0.016 0.157 0.017 0.151 0.015 9.2 <0.001 A>D***, A>C***, B>D**
R Dorsal Putamen x=23, y=0, z=15 0.088 0.008 0.086 0.009 0.080 0.009 0.076 0.008 9.1 <0.001 A>D***, A>C**, B>D**

Regional WM Volumes MNI Coordinates
R Medial Temporal Lobe x=27, y=-19, z=-5 0.770 0.057 0.754 0.052 0.727 0.056 0.713 0.044 5.3 0.002 A>D**
R Inferior Temporal Lobe x=57, y=-20, z=-21 0.594 0.047 0.585 0.046 0.565 0.044 0.546 0.034 9.3 <0.001 A>B**, A>C***, D>B**, D>C**
R Inferior Parietal Lobe x=55, y=-48, z=35 0.347 0.065 0.353 0.081 0.278 0.056 0.285 0.056 8.0 <0.001 A>D**, A>C**, B>D*, B>C**

Manually Traced Orbitofrontal Gyrus Rectus Volume, mm3 868 247 1128 438 1205 384 1282 449 5.1 0.003 A<B*, C**, D***

Dunnett T3 post hoc test

*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001.

Values for regional brain volumes are fractions of the respective brain tissue type per volume.