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Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Jan 7;232(13):2217–2226. doi: 10.1007/s00213-014-3857-y

Table 2.

Volume and white matter data from 94 alcohol-naïve adolescents

FH Negative n = 45
Mean (SD)
FH Positive n = 49
Mean (SD)
p
value
Gray matter volume (mm3)a
 L NAcc 765.63 (139.11) 802.06 (120.94) 0.77
 R NAcc 794.77 (147.66) 819.38 (108.28) 0.44
 L lateral OFC 9288.29 (1280.92) 9561.80 (899.24) 0.36
 L medial OFC 6283.16 (931.59) 6608.22 (918.77) 0.85
 L frontal pole 1077.67 (167.26) 1068.63 (191.67) 0.32
 R lateral OFC 9406.40 (1140.48) 9740.57 (975.37) 0.78
 R medial OFC 6344.27 (828.38) 6529.88 (719.56) 0.40
 R frontal pole 1412.38 (221.53) 1492.51 (216.77) 0.48
White matter tract volume (mm3)a
 L NAcc to OFC white
matter volume
3532.54 (883.11) 3705.18 (939.70) 0.79
 R NAcc to OFC white
matter volume
3965.45 (878.61) 4411.01 (788.76) 0.14
ProbtrackX findings
 %age streamlines from L
NAcc to OFC
0.46 (0.15) 0.48 (0.11) 0.59
 %age streamlines from R
NAcc to OFC
0.42 (0.12) 0.38 (0.10) 0.23
White matter integrity indices in NAcc-OFC tract
 L FA 0.35 (0.03) 0.36 (0.03) 0.07
 R FA 0.36 (0.03) 0.36 (0.02) 0.10
 L MD 7.75 × 10−4 (2.29 ×
10−5)
7.62 × 10−4 (2.67 ×
10−5)
0.01
 R MD 7.72 × 10−4 (2.15 ×
10−5)
7.62 × 10−4 (2.35 ×
10−5)
0.03
 L RD 6.21 × 10−4 (2.58 ×
10−5)
6.06 × 10−4 (3.18 ×
10−5)
0.01
 R RD 6.17 × 10−4 (2.47 ×
10−5)
6.05 × 10−4 (3.18 ×
10−5)
0.02
 L AD 1.08 × 10−3 (3.60 ×
10−5)
1.07 × 10−3 (3.04 ×
10−5)
0.16
 R AD 1.08 × 10−3 (3.18 ×
10−5)
1.07 × 10−3 (3.22 ×
10−5)
0.23
Principal diffusion direction dispersion
 L PDD 0.03 (0.01) 0.03 (0.01) 0.27
 R PDD 0.03 (0.01) 0.03 (0.01) 0.43

Lateral OFC, medial OFC, and frontal pole were combined for ProbtrackX analyses to comprise the “orbitofrontal pole”. Separate Desikan atlas defined regions are presented in this table.

L left, R right, NAcc nucleus accumbens, OFC orbitofrontal cortex, FA fractional anisotropy, MD mean diffusivity, RD radial diffusivity, AD axial diffusivity, PDD principal diffusion direction

a

Controlled for total intracranial volume in group analyses