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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Oct 3;76(8):629–638. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.08.016

Table 4.

Group differences in the volume of sub-cortical structures and the cerebellum among children reared in institutions and community controls in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (n=80)1

Ever Institutionalized
Group (n=58)
Never
Institutionalized
Group (n=22)
Group Difference1
M SD M SD F p-value

Striatum
  Caudate 8338.2 865.1 8693.7 878.1 1.03 .512
  Putamen 11,742.7 1052.2 11,804.0 1058.4 0.31 .763
  Globus Pallidus 4242.6 485.5 4417.8 484.2 1.00 .512
  Nucleus Accumbens 1447.2 216.3 1389.5 187.7 3.68S .472
Amygdala 3759.2 395.8 3893.8 336.4 1.43 .512
Hippocampus 9254.7 792.5 9382.8 749.7 0.00 .992
Thalamus 14,465.7 1459.8 15.046.2 1187.1 1.47 .512
Cerebellum 130,490.5 12,289.3 134,281.3 13,773.0 0.19 .763
1

Analyses control for age, gender, total brain volume, and TR and p-values corrected for the false discovery rate (FDR).