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