Table 2.

Differences between baseline and post-treatment of brain metabolites in the anterior cingulate cortex

Brain metabolites	Time	Brain metabolites mean (SD)	Paired differences between baseline and post-treatment				P-value
			Mean	SD	95% confidence interval of the difference
					Lower	Upper
NAA/Cr	Baseline	1.392 (0.08)
	Post-treatment	1.470 (0.09)	−0.078	0.031	−0.100	−0.056	<0.001
Glx/Cr	Baseline	0.248 (0.03)
	Post-treatment	0.288 (0.03)	−0.040	0.020	−0.054	−0.0256	<0.001
Cho/Cr	Baseline	0.748 (0.07)
	Post-treatment	0.732 (0.09)	0.016	0.033	−0.008	0.040	0.160
mI/Cr	Baseline	0.426 (0.02)
	Post-treatment	0.432 (0.03)	−0.006	0.027	−0.025	0.0130	0.502

Abbreviations: Cho, choline; Cr, creatine; Glx, glutamine combined glutamate; mI, myo-inositol; NAA, N-acetylaspartate.