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. 2016 Jun 7;6(6):e835. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.110

Table 2. Reduced connectivity in depressive patients with suicidal ideation found using the NBS analysis compared with depressive patients without ideation.

Edges t-statisticsa Mean edge strength
Correlation coefficients in MDD with suicidal ideationb
    Suicidal ideation No suicidal ideation SSI BIS motor BIS attention-cognitive BIS non-planning
Left rostral middle frontalc and left pallidumc 3.01 5.04 40.68 −0.24 −0.08 −0.28 −0.27
Left rostral middle frontalc and left lateral occipital 2.52 0.54 5.32 0.23 −0.13 0.27 0.27
Left rostral middle frontalc and left pars orbitalis 2.44 50.67 98.40 0.40 0.73d 0.20 0.21
Left superior parietalc and left thalamus 3.21 14.08 58.52 0.25 0.21 0.02 0.17
Left superior parietalc and left putamen 2.94 81.25 162.76 −0.15 −0.04 −0.22 −0.10
Left superior parietalc and left pallidumc 2.25 17.00 41.60 −0.44 −0.39 −0.26 −0.42
Left pars triangularis and left putamen 2.37 27.75 78.16 −0.27 −0.56d 0.13 −0.19
Left frontal pole and left caudate 2.37 10.50 43.12 −0.18 0.00 −0.29 −0.21
Left frontal pole and left pallidumc 2.34 0 3.92 NA NA NA NA

Abbreviations: BIS, Barrett Impulsiveness Scale; FDR, false discovery rate; MDD, major depressive disorder; NA, not available; NBS, network-based statistics; SSI, Scale for Suicide Ideation.

a

Student's t-statistic from two-sample t-test, (MDDwithout−MDDwith).

b

Correlation coefficients between edge weights and SSI/BIS scores in MDD with suicidal ideation.

c

Hub nodes.

d

Bold, significant after FDR correction over nine edges.