Table 3.1.
Pearson correlations between GABA levels, exposure levels, brain R1 values and age, listed as correlation coefficients ( r ) and p values (p)
| GABA (Str) | Exp (P3M) | Exp (P12M) | Exp (CUM) | R1 (GP) | R1 (CN) | R1 (FT) | R1 (SN) | Age | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GABA (Thal) | r | 0.24 | 0.37 | 0.47 | 0.25 | −0.03 | 0.05 | 0.34 | 0.51 | 0.21 |
| p | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.002 | 0.12 | 0.84 | 0.76 | 0.04 | 0.001 | 0.19 | |
| GABA (Str) | r | −0.003 | 0.14 | 0.09 | 0.13 | 0.11 | 0.56 | 0.341 | 0.16 | |
| p | 0.98 | 0.40 | 0.60 | 0.44 | 0.51 | 0.0003 | 0.04 | 0.34 | ||
| Exp (P3M) | r | 0.77 | 0.27 | 0.11 | −0.03 | −0.02 | 0.22 | −0.05 | ||
| p | <0.0001 | 0.10 | 0.50 | 0.88 | 0.90 | 0.17 | 0.75 | |||
| Exp (P12M) | r | 0.29 | 0.04 | −0.05 | −0.05 | 0.25 | 0.02 | |||
| p | 0.07 | 0.80 | 0.78 | 0.78 | 0.12 | 0.91 | ||||
| Exp (CUM) | r | 0.07 | −0.06 | −0.01 | 0.12 | 0.43 | ||||
| p | 0.65 | 0.71 | 0.95 | 0.47 | 0.006 | |||||
| R1 (GP) | r | 0.80 | 0.40 | 0.63 | 0.26 | |||||
| p | <0.0001 | 0.01 | <0.0001 | 0.11 | ||||||
| R1 (CN) | r | 0.54 | 0.66 | −0.01 | ||||||
| p | 0.0003 | <0.0001 | 0.94 | |||||||
| R1 (FT) | r | 0.75 | −0.12 | |||||||
| p | <0.0001 | 0.45 | ||||||||
| R1 (SN) | r | 0.13 | ||||||||
| p | 0.42 |
GABA (Thal): thalamic GABA levels; GABA (Str): striatal GABA levels; Exp (P3M): past-3-month exposure levels; Exp (P12M): past-12-months exposure levels; Exp (CUM): cumulative exposure levels; R1 (GP): R1 values from the globus pallidus; R1(CN): R1 values from the caudate nucleus; R1 (FT): R1 values from the frontal cortex; R1 (SN): R1 values from the substantia nigra