Skip to main content
. 2017 Apr 24;11:196. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00196

Table 2.

Differences in diffusion measures between HC and BPD participants with or without suicidal behavior.

HC (n = 20) BPD-SA (n = 8) BPD+SA (n = 13) Test statistic
M SD M SD M SD F(1,39) p
FA in distinct regions of the CC
     Genu 0.60 0.05 0.63 0.05 0.58 0.04 2.91 0.07
     Splenium 0.70 0.03 0.71 0.03 0.67 0.05 3.51* 0.04
     Body 0.61 0.04 0.62 0.04 0.59 0.05 1.39 0.26
MD in distinct regions of the CC
     Genu 0.82 0.03 0.82 0.03 0.84 0.03 1.53 0.23
     Splenium 0.79 0.03 0.78 0.02 0.82 0.04 3.86* 0.03
     Body 0.80 0.04 0.80 0.03 0.82 0.04 2.37 0.11

Note: HC, healthy control participants; BPD-SA, borderline personality disorder participants without suicidal behavior; BPD+SA, borderline personality disorder participants with suicidal behavior; FA, fractional anisotropy; MD, mean diffusivity; CC, corpus callosum. *p < 0.05.