Table 2.
Apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) in healthy controls and bipolar patients.
| ADC values (mm2/sec) | Healthy Controls (n=35) | Bipolar Patients (n=24) | Statistics (df=1/55) | |||
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| Mean | S.D. | Mean | S.D. | F | p | |
| Right frontal lobe | 75.06 | 3.10 | 76.38 | 4.29 | 1.39 | 0.24 |
| Left frontal lobe | 71.43 | 3.19 | 73.44 | 3.68 | 3.33 | 0.07 |
| Right temporal lobe | 75.48 | 3.76 | 78.87 | 4.45 | 7.94 | 0.007 |
| Left temporal lobe | 74.84 | 4.22 | 76.77 | 4.59 | 1.63 | 0.21 |
| Right parietal lobe | 70.52 | 4.15 | 72.71 | 3.19 | 3.95 | 0.052 |
| Left parietal lobe | 72.23 | 3.63 | 74.33 | 3.10 | 5.49 | 0.02 |
| Right occipital lobe | 77.64 | 3.44 | 84.44 | 5.93 | 27.67 | <0.001 |
| Left occipital lobe | 76.73 | 3.46 | 82.71 | 4.12 | 33.50 | <0.001 |
A GLM for repeated measures was performed to compare ADC values (with age and gender as covariates, F=20.39, p<0.001) between bipolar patients and normal controls. The table reports the statistics of the univariate GLM.