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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroimage. 2018 Jan 11;190:94–106. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.01.021

Table 2.

Correlations between the behavioral measures, age, depression score (BDI), and the PET measures in HC (n=62, except for correlations with cholinergic PET measures, n =10) and PD (n = 135).

Individual
Characteristics
Task Performance Cholinergic
PET
Dopaminergic PET
age BDI color
naming
Stroop
conflict
dual
conflict
thalamic
k3
cortical
k3
putamen
DVR
caudate
DVR
HC Individual Characteristics age r 1.00 −.09 .23 .53 .40 .00 .12 −.28 −.46
p .510 .068 ** .001 .999 .746 .030 **
BDI r −.09 1.00 −.01 −.01 −.04 .23 .28 −.02 .02
p .510 .957 .913 .739 .524 .427 .881 .872
Task Performance color naming r .23 −.01 1.00 .15 .20 −.20 .05 .03 −.04
p .068 .957 .233 .114 .583 .894 .798 .784
Stroop conflict r .53 −.01 .15 1.00 .72 −.37 −.23 −.26 −.32
p ** .913 .233 ** .290 .529 .039 .011
dual conflict r .40 −.04 .20 .72 1.00 −.55 −.47 −.23 −.30
p .001 .739 .114 ** .097 .176 .068 .017
Cholinergic PET thalamic k3 r .00 .23 −.20 −.37 −.55 1.00 .82 .10 .09
p .999 .524 .583 .290 .097 .004 .791 .807
cortical k3 r .12 .28 .05 −.23 −.47 .82 1.00 .04 .01
p .746 .427 .894 .529 .176 .004 .923 .976
Dopaminergic PET putamen DVR r −.28 −.02 .03 −.26 −.23 .10 .04 1.00 .83
p .030 .881 .798 .039 .068 .791 .923 **
caudate DVR r −.46 .02 −.04 −.32 −.30 .09 .01 .83 1.00
p ** .872 .784 .011 .017 .807 .976 **
PD Individual Characteristics age r 1.00 −.13 .29 .30 .24 −.25 −.24 .06 −.19
p .148 .001 ** .005 .004 .005 .492 .024
BDI r −.13 1.00 .09 .03 .03 .15 .25 −.15 −.09
p .148 .322 .753 .746 .088 .004 .090 .320
Task Performance color naming r .29 .09 1.00 .48 .56 −.16 −.17 −.15 −.34
p .001 .322 ** ** .065 .050 .078 **
Stroop conflict r .30 .03 .48 1.00 .62 −.11 −.15 −.13 −.24
p ** .753 ** ** .212 .076 .124 .005
dual conflict r .24 .03 .56 .62 1.00 −.17 −.24 −.14 −.25
p .005 .746 ** ** .046 .004 .113 .004
Cholinergic PET thalamic k3 r −.25 .15 −.16 −.11 −.17 1.00 .58 .11 .23
p .004 .088 .065 .212 .046 ** .194 .006
cortical k3 r −.24 .25 −.17 −.15 −.24 .58 1.00 .23 .27
p .005 .004 .050 .076 .004 ** .008 .002
Dopaminergic PET putamen DVR r .06 −.15 −.15 −.13 −.14 .11 .23 1.00 .80
p .492 .090 .078 .124 .113 .194 .008 **
caudate DVR r −.19 −.09 −.34 −.24 −.25 .23 .27 .80 1.00
p .024 .320 ** .005 .004 .006 .002 **
**

indicates p < .0005