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. 2017 Nov 17;7:15772. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-15926-0

Table 2.

Reduced connectivity in depressive patients with suicidal ideation found using the network-based statistics analysis, compared to depressive patients without ideation.

Edges t -statistics § Mean functional connectivities Correlation coefficients with clinical measurements
Suicidal Ideation ( n  = 23) No suicidal ideation ( n  = 23) Suicidality score SSI
Left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* and left caudate 4.51 0.29 0.52 −0.56 −0.24
Left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* and right caudate 4.33 0.27 0.48 −0.47 −0.24
Left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* and right olfactory cortex 4.38 0.19 0.40 −0.47 −0.34
Left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* and right putamen 4.60 0.11 0.33 −0.54 −0.40
Left thalamus* and left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* 4.89 0.10 0.32 −0.57 −0.42
Left thalamus* and left middle frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis 4.36 0.13 0.35 −0.50 −0.41
Left thalamus* and left middle temporal gyrus 4.47 0.34 0.54 −0.48 −0.40
Right thalamus* and left superior frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis* 5.19 0.061 0.29 −0.58 −0.40
Right thalamus* and left middle frontal gyrus, pars orbitalis 4.21 0.084 0.32 −0.56 −0.37
Right thalamus* and left middle temporal gyrus 5.40 0.24 0.51 −0.54 −0.35
Right thalamus* and left postcentral gyrus 4.64 0.20 0.49 −0.56 −0.52

SSI, Scale for Suicide Ideation.

§t-statistic from 2-sample t-test, (MDDwithout − MDDwith).

*hub nodes.

Spearman partial correlation coefficients between functional connectivities and Suicidality score/SSI scores in total MDD patients.

BOLD: significant after FDR correction over 11 edges (FDR-adjusted p-value < 0.05).