Table 3.

Correlations between cortisol levels and white matter tract fractional anisotropy (top) and mean diffusivity (bottom)

	Waking	Eveninga	Diurnal	Starta	Enda	Reactive
Genu	0.07	−0.10	−0.06	−0.04	−0.03	0.04
Splenium	0.15	0.02	−0.22c	−0.04	−0.13	−0.05
Arcuate	0.02	−0.11	−0.02	0.04	0.00	0.00
ATR	−0.01	−0.04	−0.02	−0.03	−0.15	−0.03
Cingulum	−0.08	0.03	0.04	−0.09	−0.07	0.08
Uncinate	0.06	−0.03	−0.01	−0.08	−0.03	0.13
ILF	0.06	−0.18	−0.10	−0.11	−0.04	0.14
Genu	−0.00	0.07	0.02	0.12	−0.09	−0.21b
Splenium	−0.13	−0.05	0.18	0.02	−0.01	−0.04
Arcuate	0.14	0.23c	−0.08	0.13	−0.08	−0.22c
ATR	0.09	0.21b	−0.01	0.21b	0.05	−0.19
Cingulum	0.04	0.11	−0.02	0.16	0.01	−0.20
Uncinate	0.13	0.20	−0.13	0.24c	−0.05	−0.35d
ILF	−0.07	0.18	0.12	0.27c	0.02	−0.28c

Key: ATR, anterior thalamic radiation; ILF, inferior longitudinal fasciculus.

^aLog transformed.

^bTrend (p < 0.08).

^cp < 0.05.

^dp < 0.01.