Table 2.
Brain regions exhibiting the significant altered ALFF between PD patients and normal controls, with age, gender, education level, head motion, and structural atrophy as covariates.
| Regions | BA | Cluster | MNI | T-score | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size | x | y | z | |||
| PD < NC | ||||||
| Rt. insula/inferior frontal gyrus | 47 | 13 | 45 | 15 | −9 | 3.78 |
| Lt. thalamus | 13 | −6 | −3 | 12 | 3.45 | |
| Lt. caudate | −6 | 6 | 6 | 2.60 | ||
| PD > NC | ||||||
| Rt. medial frontal gyrus | 8 | 20 | 6 | 39 | 48 | 3.43 |
| 6 | 6 | 30 | 42 | 3.28 | ||
| Rt. middle frontal gyrus | 9 | 14 | 42 | 45 | 33 | 3.30 |
| Rt. superior frontal gyrus | 10 | 45 | 54 | 21 | 3.26 | |