Table 1.

Subjects' characteristics.

	Healthy controls (HC)	AD patients	Group comparison (p-value)#
N	20	21
Age (years)	71.05 ± 3.66	73.62 ± 5.22	n.s. (0.08)
Gender (F:M)	13:7	13:8	n.s. (0.21)
MMSE	29.55 ± 0.69	21.62 ± 2.71	< 0.01
Motion during fMRI acquisition (§)	0.07 ± 0.04	0.09 ± 0.06	n.s. (0.27)

MMSE, Mini Mental State Examination; (§) mean relative displacement in mm as calculated during the preprocessing with MELODIC FSL tool.

^#Calculated with two-sample independent t-test or Fisher's exact test, as appropriate.

n.s. = not significant.